“And profited in the Jews’ religion above many my equals in mine own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers.”
I was advancing in Judaism beyond many Jews of my own age and was extremely zealous for the traditions of my fathers. — Paul's credentials as an insider intensify his authority to critique the very Judaism he now explicitly rejects; he did not abandon tradition out of ignorance but from divine encounter.
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