On Becoming the Righteousness of God
2 Corinthians 5:21
(Originally published in Pauline Theology, Volume II, ed.
D.
M.
Hay: Augsburg Fortress, Minneapolis,
1993, 200–208.
Reproduced by permission of the author.
)
N.
T.
Wright
I.
INTRODUCTION: THE...
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On Becoming the Righteousness of God
2 Corinthians 5:21
(Originally published in Pauline Theology, Volume II, ed.
D.
M.
Hay: Augsburg Fortress, Minneapolis,
1993, 200–208.
Reproduced by permission of the author.
)
N.
T.
Wright
I.
INTRODUCTION: THE PROBLEM
2 CORINTHIANS 5:21 poses several problems for the interpreter; I shall here focus on
one in particular.
What does Paul mean when he says “that we might become the
righteousness of God”? The text reads as follows:
The NRSV translates this as follows:
For our sake he [God] made him [Christ] to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we
might become the righteousness of God.
Many discussions of the verse assume one particular meaning for
here and work backwards to discuss what they see as the real problem, namely, the
meaning .
I wish to examine,
instead, the precise meaning, in this context, of the key final phrase.
The Regular Usage
There are two related reasons why this is problematic: the first to do with the regular
meaning
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