worked out by means of analysing man’s plight and then discerning in Christ the solution to that plight. Although in Romans Paul can conduct an argument along these lines, his theology actually worked the other way round: first he grasped the salvation provided by Christ for Jew and Gentile alike and then he worked out that all men must need that salvation, Jew as well as Gentile, so that it must be impossible for a Jew to be justified by his covenant election and obedience. Thus Paul did not attack