assumption that Israel enjoyed a privileged knowledge of God’s will through the law. He assumes that his rhetorical Jewish dialogue partner would agree with him that merely knowing God’s will is insufficient apart from doing it (Rom. 2:17–29). Therefore Paul’s consciousness of his ranking and progress in ‘Judaism’ (Gal. 1:14) in all likelihood means that he understood his standing with God as based not merely upon his ethnic and familial background, but also upon his own obedience to the law. He