Paul’s linkage of Gen 15.6 to Ps. 32.1-2 (31.1-2LXX)
by λογιζομαι (Rom. 4.3, 7) can affect his audience rhetorically, regardless of
scriptural expertise. Key words recur throughout Paul’s text and within each
cited passage, repetition that impresses upon the listener both a sense of
cogency of his argument and of the unanimous agreement between Paul and
authoritative scripture, which demonstrates that important Jewish
ancestors—Moses and the Prophets—support Paul. A single citation, then, can
exhibit both rhetoric and logical structural characteristics. Nevertheless,
Paul’s interest in passages that structure his logic is primarily a semantic
interest, to which lexical considerations are subordinate. (Jonathan D. H.
Norton, Contours in the Text: Textual Variation in the Writings of Paul,
Josephus and the Yaḥad [Library of New Testament Studies 430; London: T
& T Clark, 2011], 139)
On Rom 4 and the use of Psa 32 alongside Gen 15:6, see, for e.g.:
Response to a Recent Attempt to Defend Imputed Righteousness
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