5:11); ‘annihilate’ (2 Thess. 2:8); and ‘abolish’ (Eph. 2:15; 2 Tim. 1:10). To paraphrase Ephesians, using Louw and Nida’s definition of katargeō (13.100), ‘Christ has put an end to the law in its entirety.’ Ephesians 2:15 stands in obvious tension with two other verses in Paul’s letters, the first of which is in the same letter. If Ephesians 2:15 typifies negative critique, just a few chapters on, in Ephesians 6:1–2, we find positive approval of the law. Paul quotes one of the ‘commandments’ that