Together with the earliest Jewish believers in Jesus, Paul understood the Old Testament christologically. And he worked from the same two fixed points: (1) the messiahship and lordship of Jesus, as validated by the resurrection and witnessed to by the Spirit; and (2) the revelation of God in the Jewish Scriptures. But though in his own experience a true understanding of Christ preceded a proper understanding of Scripture, in his exegetical endeavors he habitually began with Scripture and moved on
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