Grant’s analysis in his book, St. Paul. He calls Paul’s letters: …vividly varied and lively, but unrounded, unarranged, and muddled, making their points not by any orderly procedure but by a series of hammer-blow contrasts and antitheses. Paul is far too impulsive and enthusiastic to standardize his terms or arrange his material. He is often ambiguous — with results that have reverberated down the centuries. And he commits flagrant self-contradictions, which caused Augustine, Bishop of Hippo from 396 to 430, among many others, the deepest anxiety.29
