clauses. Paul’s teaching was that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that he was buried, and that according to the Scriptures he was raised on the third day. The three clauses are linked in simple parataxis by the word and (καί). This recalls the Semitic style of the gospels, but ought not too readily to be described as a Semitism; the short independent propositions, not subordinated to one another, reflect the nature of proclamation. The first proposition explicitly relates