work has not been done in a vacuum and that the contributions of other scholars form the backdrop for what is discussed. The footnotes in each chapter either provide the source for a citation or point to works that should be consulted for further research. The goal in the present work is to see what Paul says and to see it in the right proportions. Adolf Schlatter, the famous German New Testament scholar whose work has been rediscovered today, has rightly commented that the hardest thing to observe