The Relationship of Jewish and Gentile Believers to the Law Between A.D. 30 and 70 in the Scripture

199 faith. The correspondence could be charted as follows: Promise Means 3:7a God would justify Gentiles EK n(an:wc; 3:7b All nations blessed m you While the correlation between the promises of "justification of Gentiles" and " all nations being blessed" is easy to see Burton is confused regarding the relationship between the two designated means "EK n(an:wc;" and "in you . " He concedes that " the apostle has missed the meaning of the Hebrew . .. . He doubtless takes Ev in its causal , basal sense , meaning ' on the basis of what he is or has done,' and interprets it as having reference to his faith ." 159 Burton is forced to this conclusion, of course, because he sees the focus of Paul ' s argument on Abraham's faith and attempts to understand Paul's statement and quotation from that standpoint. 160 As he admits , however , the idea of Abraham's faith was not a part of the original text of Genesis 12 or those which sprang from it. The promise was unconditional regardless of Abraham' s response. The tabulation of the texts from the Genesis account point in a different direction . They indicate that God ' s promise of blessing for the nation wa to be found " in you ," but more specifically in T4J a ntpµaT( aou (Gen 22: 18; 26 :4). Paul clarifie thi point just a few verses later in 3: 16 when he says the promises were given to Abraham Kat T4J 0-TTEpµaT( 0-0U, oc; EO-TlV Xp taTO<;. 161 It would seem then that go pel preached 159 Burton, alatians, 160-61 . 160 ung take fv aol "in it in trumental en , a 'b mean f u'" r f rrin t A raham' " lie ing re pon e to od' promi , " alatian , 1 . But thi ar u a ain t th unconditional n ture of the promi e whi h i a maj r ompon nt f m anin in th ont t o en i 12 . 161 H o r 1 m t th ri ht in a in "in al ti n , Paul ' n rn i t h nt1le b th ir in rpor ti n in hri t ," H k r, "m n~ th t th " pt T U,