Is There a Chiasm?

In the Greek when you find bookends, we used to find inverted parallelisms. And in the Greek they're called inclusios. An inclusio will sometimes be a chiasm, but it's not always a chiasm. In this case, all of Romans is an inclusio. At the very beginning of the book, there was this really awkward weird phrase, the obedience of faith. Now we just kind of read that. Oh, it's Bible language. That's a weird phrase though, obedience offaith. Like I have to do things kind of like opposed to each other. The whole Protestant idea of faith. That's kind of like different from obedience because obedience