divine will. However, he now knows that despite all his zeal for the law he sinned against God in persecuting the church. Under the impact of this shattering realization Paul has reconstructed his biography, coming to tell his story in ways previously unimaginable. What he says in Romans 7 concerning his relationship with the law is one of the expressions of that reconstruction. Paul speaks of his own experiences but does so making retrospective evaluations.1 I will argue that this interpretation