But they only heard the report: 'The man who formerly persecuted us is now preaching the faith he once tried to destroy.' — the Judean churches receive only rumor ('akoē') of Paul's transformation, yet this report itself ('he pistis') becomes a category: the faith is now something he preaches, identical with what he once opposed, reinforcing the gospel's continuity and transcendence over his personal reversal.

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