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Prior to the middle of the fourth century, the exegesis of St. Paul had been monopolized by Greek and Syriac commentators. Then, in the space of half a century (c. 360–409), there appeared no less than 52 commentaries by six different Latin authors. This sudden flurry of literary activity has been dubbed the western “Renaissance of Paul.” Jerome’s commentaries on four Pauline epistles (Galatians,...

. But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb and called me through his grace, to reveal his Son in me so that I might preach him among the nations … Here and in his epistle to the Romans Paul writes that he has been set apart for the Gospel of God.128 God knew Jeremiah and sanctified him before he was formed and conceived in his mother’s womb.129 The righteous man, or (as some think) the Savior, says, “I was cast upon you from birth; from my mother’s womb you have been
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