simply, “You have answered rightly; do this and you will live” (Luke 10:27–28). The problem was, of course, that neither the lawyer himself nor anyone else (other than the Lord Jesus) has ever, or will ever, fulfill these two supreme commandments. Needless to say, the words of Paul in this verse have been absurdly misunderstood as stating a real possibility if not an actual reality. This is done despite Paul’s emphatic statements to the contrary in 3:19–20. To so interpret Paul here, as if he conceived