heaven while still alive.”91 The significant and typically Pauline move brings aspects of the age to come into our present reality (1 Cor 10:11). Thus already now we are being transformed into glory (2 Cor 3:18; see also Rom 8:29). The voice of the form here is more certainly passive. This divine or theological passive implies that God effects the change so that believers “receive from the Lord their reformation.”92 At the same time, the mood is imperative. Cranfield encapsulates the force of both
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