1998: 164)? The continuing focus on the law might suggest the former, for in this verse Paul clearly has in view the Mosaic law, and that law was given to Israel.14 But, while never rising to the level of an explicit claim, what Paul says about the law in many contexts clearly presupposes that he thinks the Mosaic law and Israel’s experience with it are paradigmatic of the experience of all people. We think it likely, then, that the experience Paul refers to in verses 19–20 is broadly applicable