Should the text in Romans 5:1 be read as an indicative or a subjunctive, that is, "ἔχομεν" or "ἔχωμεν"? Verbrugge wants to consider all the grammatical internal evidence to support the best text-critical decisions for this text.

The popular understanding that "latter-days" refers only to the end of the world needs radical adjustment. Beale demonstrates how “inaugurated eschatology” sheds light on a Christian understanding of the end times. The theological idea of the relation of the indicative to the imperative in the New Testament is used to enhance such an understanding.