Nomos

Thinking about Plato’s Crito, it again strikes me that NOMOS is closer to what our “culture” than to “law.” If Paul is entering into a Greek debate about NOMOS (as well, of course, as a Jewish one), then he’s critiquing the notion that justice can be achieved through the institutions of culture. Romans stands not only against Greek experiments in utopia through NOMOS, but against Matthew Arnold (as Arnold no doubt realized he stood against Romans).