Known today simply as an empiricist philosopher, John Locke (1632–1704) was also seen in the past as a careful student of Paul. His Paraphrase and Notes on the Epistles of St Paul was widely read throughout the eighteenth century and well into the nineteenth. In the preface to his Paraphrase, Locke noted the dangers faced by readers of Paul who consult commentators on the apostle’s writings. On the one hand, some consult only those commentators
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