chapter 7 on, Paul appears to be answering a series of questions put to him in a letter from the Corinthians: “Now for the matters you wrote about,” he begins (7:1). That explains why the topics change so radically: at one point Paul is dealing with relations between the sexes (chap. 7), at another with meat offered to idols (8:1ff.). He can move from women praying and prophesying in the congregation (11:2–16), to the Lord’s Supper (11:17–34), to grace-gifts and love (chaps. 12–14), to the resurrection