motifs have left their mark upon that ethic. If one seeks to analyze the structure of Paul’s ethic in terms of its absolutely fundamental components, then the following formulation can perhaps be defended: radically conceived, the Pauline ethic is compounded of the apostle’s theological, eschatological, and christological convictions. These are the three inseparably related root-motifs of his preaching and thus, also, of his ethic. For it has become crystal clear that Paul’s ethic has its place only