of this commentary that I stand in a long line of interpreters, influenced by a specific social and theological setting, trying to understand the message of this letter. I am both consciously and subconsciously influenced by my own social location, by the different streams of interpretive traditions, and by my own presuppositions. The most influential theological tradition on me is by far the Protestant Reformation and a certain stream of soteriological Calvinism. But let the reader of this commentary