the foundation of the world, for which all human beings were predestined, the mystery that has now been revealed: “To unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth” (Eph 1:3–10). This, for Paul, is the eschatological end—an end he first began to perceive at his conversion, when Jesus revealed to him that he and all who believe in him form one living body in the unity of the Holy Spirit. In the process of examining the three truths that resided within his conversion experience, though