across Israel’s scriptures; he has seen that grace in personal action in the Messiah, and now sees those scriptures in an entirely new light. He has always invoked the One God in personal prayer, and he continues to do so; he has not (that is) been ‘converted’ in some modern sense, from having no belief in or awareness of a supreme deity to having such a thing for the first time. But he now knows this One God as the one who sent the son, and the one who sends the spirit of the son (Galatians 4:4–7).
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