Before turning to the Pauline texts themselves, I need here to address some basic exegetical matters and, for the sake of the reader, to anticipate the primary conclusions to which the exegetical chapters have led. I begin with the latter. At the end of the exegetical process it became clear to me that even though the cumulative evidence tells the story in full, there are, by anyone’s reckoning, three key texts that put forward
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