“Set Apart for the Gospel”
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This is a further definition of what it means to be called, specifying that Christ has chosen him to take the gospel to the Gentiles. In Galatians 1:15 Paul says that he was “set apart … from my mother’s womb,” an allusion to the call of Jeremiah (Jer 1:5), and this may be alluded to here as well. Moo (1996:42–43) says that gospelhere refers not only to the gospel message and its proclamation but also to the very events by which the gospel came to be, God sending his Son as the sacrifice that produced salvation. Thus by Jesus Christ and God should be seen as indicating origin; that is, this gospel came from God. More
Osborne, Grant R. Romans. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2004. Print. The IVP New Testament Commentary Series.
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