law and of sin in Romans 7 is the truth of his life as a Pharisee as he now sees it, but not as he would have seen it at that time. In Philippians 3 Paul also remakes his biography but is more paradoxical, describing the past in terms he would then have recognized in order to emphasize the gulf between his past and his present. Here the specific element of biographical reconstruction is the revaluing of his law observance and other aspects of his previous life. He once counted them as gain but now