that he not only changed from being a persecutor of Christ to being a preacher of Christ, but also forswore all vengeance and violence against enemies (Rom. 12:14–21). Moreover, his zeal to kill, metaphorically and perhaps literally, became a zeal to die, again metaphorically and perhaps literally. Without either psychologizing or oversimplifying, we may safely conclude that something like a life of “cruciformity”—of embracing a daily death (1 Cor. 15:31)—was an inherent and inevitable dimension