whom he moved; he engaged with them and developed a variety of responses to them. Depending on their character and his context, at times he accommodated them, at times opposed them, at times transformed them, and at times regarded them as indifferent. This flexibility comes out most clearly in his first letter to the Christians at Corinth: “I have become all things to all men,” he says, “that I might by all means save some” (1 Cor. 9:22). This does not mean that Paul compromised his basic beliefs