tentative insights which only later seem to materialize, but rather indications, albeit not elaborated, which already show maturity of thought. My simple answer to this problem is that Paul’s doctrine of justification by faith has its theological context in his reflection on the relation between Jews and Gentiles, and not within the problem of how man is to be saved, or how man’s deeds are to be accounted, or how the free will of individuals is to be asserted or checked. Among passages about justification