the message was to get out was by his embodying in himself (in ways that caused some then, and cause some still, to raise an eyebrow) the outreach of Israel’s one true God to the wider world of the Gentiles. Paul remained a firm monotheist, and as we shall see he explored and exploited that belief to the full. But it was a disturbingly redefined monotheism. To the three worlds which together form Paul’s context we must add a fourth, already in being by the time of his conversion, a world which formed,