Understood in this way—and this is undoubtedly how the Athenians would have understood it—we can begin to see Paul’s persuasive logos in his Mars Hill address. When Paul tells the Athenians that God has given pistis to all that judgment will come by his raising Christ from the dead, Paul is, in effect, saying that God’s rhetorical proof, God’s persuasive word, that all men will be judged is the resurrection of Christ.
