Sublime

a "low" ecclesiology, a mere individualism with saved individuals getting together from time to time for mutual benefit, were to turn out to be a denial of some of the key elements of Paul's missionary theology?

They are to hold fast to Wisdom, which is to be found in Torah, and their god will deliver them, judging the nations and exalting Israel as his people. This is substantially the same message as can be found in much apocalyptic writing.

the context in which the law of God was given, a tracing of its story throughout the whole Bible—in a word, a biblical theological, Christocentric approach to the law—underscored that like all Gaul, God’s law is “divided into three parts”—unified indeed because divinely given, and yet multidimensional in character, function, and historical reach.

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To be able to summarize the main points of the three messianic hymns in the opening chapters of Luke.