strikes a balance: “Paul … holds the ecstatic phenomena and the miracles that take place in the community to be workings of the → Spirit. But in his eyes these phenomena are subject to the eschatological proviso. They are provisional/transitory (see chap. 13). They do not prove the truth of the word of the cross, but are for their own part subject to the criterion of the cross. When Paul presents himself as a pneumatic, then he points to his ‘weakness’ (2 Cor. 12:6ff.)” (op. cit., 55). But Paul does
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