tails—not just fifty heads. Likewise, when Paul speaks of the cross here, he is using the word as a synecdoche for the whole of the gospel. But the death of Jesus is not the whole of the gospel any more than a head is the whole of a cow. It is vitally important, yes. The gospel could not live without the cross any more than a cow could live without a head. But still, the events of the first Easter weekend are not the whole story. First Corinthians 1:30 says as much when it speaks of how being in
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