translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: ROM

label: NET study note

text: A quotation from Gen 15:6 .


text: A quotation from Ps 32:1-2 .


text: See the note on “circumcision” in 2:25 .


text: Although a singular noun, the promise is collective and does not refer only to Gen 12:7 , but as D. Moo ( Romans 1-8 [WEC], 279) points out, refers to multiple aspects of the promise to Abraham: multiplied descendants ( Gen 12:2 ), possession of the land ( Gen 13:15-17 ), and his becoming the vehicle of blessing to all people ( Gen 12:13 ).


text: A quotation from Gen 17:5 .


text: A quotation from Gen 15:5 .


text: Many scholars regard Rom 4:25 to be poetic or hymnic. These terms are used broadly to refer to the genre of writing, not to the content. There are two broad criteria for determining if a passage is poetic or hymnic: “(a) stylistic: a certain rhythmical lilt when the passages are read aloud, the presence of parallelismus membrorum (i.e., an arrangement into couplets), the semblance of some metre, and the presence of rhetorical devices such as alliteration, chiasmus , and antithesis; and (b) linguistic: an unusual vocabulary, particularly the presence of theological terms, which is different from the surrounding context” (P. T. O’Brien, Philippians [NIGTC], 188-89). Classifying a passage as hymnic or poetic is important because understanding this genre can provide keys to interpretation. However, not all scholars agree that the above criteria are present in this passage.