CHAPTER I PAUL THE INTERPRETER OF CHRIST I do not try to get away from the "Charm of Paul," to use Sir W. M. Ramsay's felicitous phrase. He was a tremendous personality, and a real man is always attractive. But, great as Paul was, our chief interest in him lies in his relation to Jesus Christ. This in itself is not a new theme. The Christology of Paul has received adequate treatment at the hands of Alexander, Bruce, Du Bose, Dykes, Everett, Holsten, Lucas, Monteil, Paterson, Pfleiderer, Schmidt, Somerville, Stevens, and B. Weiss. I do not purpose to enter the realm of Biblical Theology in this discussion. My aim is a much narrower one than that of Paul's theology, or even his Christology. I mean to keep close to the path of the historical and exegetical and show how Paul came to be the Interpreter of Christ that he was, how his heritage and environment contributed to his progressive apprehension, how the Epistles necessarily reflected Paul's actual experience which served to reveal new aspects of Christ to Paul. Matheson has ably portrayed the "Spiritual Development of St. Paul," and Sabatier has made a brilliant "Sketch of the Development of His Doctrine." What I have |