even though I was formerly a blasphemer, persecutor, and arrogant — but I received mercy because I had acted ignorantly in unbelief — Paul's past violence (blasphēmeō, diōktēs) against the church is reframed through the lens of ignorance and unbelief, not malice. Mercy (eleos) retroactively transforms his trajectory from enemy to servant.

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