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Tom Wright’s eye-opening comments on these letters are combined, passage by passage, with his new translation of the Bible text. Making use of his true scholar’s understanding, yet writing in an approachable and anecdotal style, Wright captures the tension and excitement of the time as the letters seek to assert Paul’s authority and his teaching against other influences.

In stressing all this, Paul quotes one of the central early Christian commandments, which is itself, of course, taken from the Old Testament: ‘Love your neighbour as yourself.’ If you want to keep the law, he says, this sums it all up. Jesus had said much the same (Mark 12:31). But now comes the point. The way to keep this all-embracing commandment is not by emphasizing who you are ‘according to the flesh’, that is, by getting circumcised. If you emphasize the flesh, flesh is what you’ll get; and
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