Paul could ever have given wholehearted approval to the two NT documents which most clearly express the Jewish Christian understanding of kerygma—Matthew and James.15 Certainly Paul could never have spoken of the law simply as ‘the law that makes us free’ (James 1:25 NEB); it was a claim completely untrue to his own experience, and one almost always inappropriate in the circumstances of the Gentile mission. But then, James would no doubt have been equally unhappy with Paul’s kerygma (see further