The immediate focus of the pseudadelphoi had to be justification. Whatever else they understood by „salvation‟, when they insisted that without circumcision there is no salvation, it is clear that whatever else is involved, justification is. Paul knew, therefore, that is where he needed to start: he had to demolish the Judaisers‟ claim with regard to justification. In order to do this, he knew he had to assert and establish that the sinner‟s justification before God is by faith in Christ alone by the grace of God of God alone, without any contribution from circumcision. He was going to get rid of any talk of „and‟ when it came to justification: it was „by faith in Christ alone‟, not „by faith in Christ and...‟.
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