The Fabricated Paul. Early Christianity In The Twilight. by Hermann Detering

Author:Hermann Detering [Detering, Hermann]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2012-01-13T16:00:00+00:00

From now on, therefore, we regard no one according to the flesh; even if we once regarded Christ according to the flesh, we regard him thus no longer.

The plural in 1:5 —“through whom we have received grace and apostleship”—does not agree with the singular in 1:1 and could be connected with the tendency of the redactor, that we already saw above, to exclude a special revelation to Paul (which was claimed by the Marcionites) and to incorporate him into the succession of the twelve; Verse 1:1 anticipates 1:7 and shows very clearly that the person who wrote this already knew what stood in the following verse. “If he was free to do so, he would have taken care to provide a better transition to verse 7 and would not have spoken of “being called holy” right after his “including yourselves, who are called...”[177]

All this shows very clearly that no citation is present in Romans 1:3-4, but that a redactor is at work, and indeed it is again our already familiar (Proto-)Catholic interpolator, who this time again takes the opportunity at the very beginning of the “letter” to the Romans to clarify a fundamental dogmatic position regarding which he believed the original (Marcionite) author of the letter to be dubious:

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