gospel which is in view.904 One should not put too much weight on the parallelism of expression, however, since there are similar phrases with different points of reference in 3:4 and 3:12. The second option is the best: the treasure is the gospel of God’s glory revealed in Christ. In this section of the letter Paul is primarily concerned with his ‘external’ apostolic existence, not with inward experience.905 Suggestions concerning the derivation of the image are numerous. In one group, both ‘treasure’