📖 Justification by Faith Alone — The Complete Biblical Case
TypeDoctrinal Reference Document — Justification
TypeDoctrinal Reference Document — Justification
Tractate Makkot deals with lashes as judicial punishment and laws of witnesses. Its final folio contains a remarkable passage in which the rabbis compress the entire 613 commandments of Torah down to a single principle — and the single verse they land on is the same verse Paul quotes as the foundation of justification by faith.
"The word of our God stands forever."