miss out this central point that they go bad and accuse one another of takeover bids. This fulfilment is of a different order. It is also, finally, a theology of divine victory. The force and power of ‘sin’ have been ruining the good creation, and this moment is the moment of triumph, corresponding to the crossing of the Red Sea or, indeed, to Judith’s cutting off Holofernes’s head. This, again, both is and isn’t quite like the normal Christus Victor atonement-theologies. Paul comes close to that