Israel’s covenant distinctiveness as the people of God. But Paul’s redefinition of the people of God had in effect removed that boundary marker. In reworking the role of the law in reference to the eschatological people of God what was to be done with the extensive sections of the law which deal with sacrifice and the centrality of the Jerusalem cult? Paul immediately provides the answer: he takes up cultic terms in order to redefine them too. The sacrifice God looks for is no longer that of beast