“Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.”
Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. Because of what law? The law that requires works? No, because of the law of faith. The rhetorical question exposes the logic of boasting (kauchesis): it is excluded by the principle of faith. Works-based righteousness would permit boasting; faith-based righteousness precludes it. All credit goes to God who grants the gift of faith.
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