identity. His passionate appeal to the Galatians is about their Christian identity. Often Paul’s dense paragraphs, like this one, yield their secrets if you approach them from near the end, where he sums everything up in a single great climactic statement. In this case it is verses 19b–20: ‘I have been crucified with the Messiah!—I am alive, however, but it isn’t me; it’s the Messiah, living in me! And what about the life I continue to live in this mortal flesh? Well, that is lived by the faithfulness