summed up the whole law in that same command and, like Jesus, used the criterion it gave him to discern the commandments that really mattered in directing the relationship between God and his people and between the individual members of his people. Should we then speak of a gulf between Jesus and Paul? No! Should we deduce that Paul departed from or corrupted the good news which Jesus brought? No! Should we conclude that Paul transformed Jesus’ message into something Jesus himself would
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