hope of glory for all who know Him as Savior. This testimony of substantial faith, which is equally significant and redemptive in the spiritual as well as the physical realm, was a profound challenge in the Hellenistic and pagan culture in which Paul traveled. It is also, incidentally, a direct contradiction of a minority of Paul’s radical detractors who argued that his doctrine was alien to the Jerusalem church and the other apostles, and merely a repackaged version of Mithraism and other pagan