declaring that the God whom the Jews had worshipped all along, the God made known in their scriptures, had done at last what he had promised, and that with that divine action a new world order had come into being. Paul’s theology and mission were rooted in and defined by this christologically inaugurated eschatology. In Jesus, the End had arrived in the Middle, and everything was different as a result. But it was a difference—and Paul insisted on this strongly and fiercely—which (with hindsight of