happen at the close of the †age, not that it could happen to anyone before that. But meeting the risen Christ on the road to Damascus shocked him into the new reality that was being proclaimed by the Christians he was going to haul to trial. His conversion locked him solidly into the faith and witness of the first disciples. Jesus, the Righteous One (Acts 3:14; 7:52), had been raised from the dead (4:2), making him Messiah and Lord (2:36). And this brings us to Paul’s discussion here at the end of