hope that I think Paul in Rom. 2 wished to dash. For Paul sin destroyed all human confidence to achieve salvation and any term that may conjure up such confidence in the flesh, such as repentance, he was careful to argue against. As we saw in Chapter 2, Käsemann argued that mankind was always under a power. Indeed, ‘Man never belongs to himself; he always has a lord whose power is manifested through him. We might also put it as follows: we live in and from spheres of powers’ (1971, 9). In contrast