the narrative, but the character introduced is not the author. The author, then, depicts what he wants to say with the voice of another character who speaks in place of his own authorial voice. If we have speech in character in Rom. 7, Paul doesn’t relay his own experience but presents the voice of another (see Quintilian, Inst. 6.1.25–27; Epictetus, Diatr. 1.10.7–9).6 Actually, the idea that Paul employed speech in character here is quite implausible for several reasons. First, speech in character