(epephanē) signals a discrete moment in the past,8 referring to the incarnation but more particularly to the saving death of Jesus upon the cross and the kind of blinding glory of the risen Lord that Paul experienced on the road to Damascus. Paul considers all these moments as one revelatory event. The Greek word used here, epephanē, is related to the Greek term epiphaneia, which has given us the English word “epiphany.” Describing God’s action in Christ as an epiphany appears in 2 Tim 1:10 (rendered
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