Gal 2:20; 1 Tim 1:12–16). Paul’s understanding that Jesus, in his death, loved him was now the controlling force in the apostle’s life. The universality of the statement “one died for all” is implicitly both eschatological and christological (cf. 1:19–20). It is eschatological in that this was the central event, along with the resurrection mentioned next, that divided history into the time before and after it. This brief paradox lays the foundation for the “no longer”/“now” hiatus that will be made