THE investigation of the obedience of faith in Romans, commenced some three years ago, has thus far yielded two basic conclusions. (1) The phrase u[pakoh> pi<stewj (Rom 1:5; 16:26) embodies a twin idea: the obedience consisting in faith and the obedience arising out of faith. (2) Faith's obedience, defined in the first instance as perseverance, is the link between present justification by faith...