"... The keynote of Paul's exposition sounds in Romans 1:16-17: "I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation [soterian] to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For through the gospel the righteousness of God [dikaiosyne theou] is revealed [apokalyptetai], from faith for faith, just as it is written, 'The righteous one shall live from faith.'" All the crucial theological terms of this programmatic declaration echo the language of the LXX; indeed, in certain LXX passages these terms converge in ways that prefigure Paul's formulation strikingly. Consider, for example, Psalm 97:2 (98:2 Masoretic): "The Lord has made known his salvation [soterion]; in the presence of the nations [ethnon] he has revealed [apekalypsen] his righteousness [dikaiosynen]." This psalm verse tolls a Vorklang of Paul's proclamation - a tone whose echo rebounds with greater force than the original sound. Paul means, of course, that God's righteousness is revealed through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, but his evocation of the psalmist's language hints at a conviction that he articulates explicitly elsewhere: God's grace in Jesus Christ simultaneously extends salvation to the Gentiles and confirms Israel's trust in God's saving righteousness (see Romans 15:8-9a) ..."