Sublime

Paul lives in the person of Jesus by giving himself over to the narrative arc of Jesus’s death and resurrection, allowing the Holy Spirit through faith to make Jesus’s story Paul’s own.

Jesus binds his being to Paul’s through the experience of death (the cross), just as Jesus binds himself to the church through the death experience of persecution. This is a truly ontological reality for Paul, because Paul’s own being (the very story that gave coherence to his being) was dead and yet was now made alive by being hidden in the resurr