Among many other ways, I suggest that he does so with his use of the very word Christ. This is not simply, for Paul, a proper name. It is a title which means ‘Messiah’. ‘Messiah’ implies ‘Israel’; to call this Jesus ‘Messiah’ means to claim that Israel’s destiny has reached its fulfilment in him. Any attempt to split off ‘Messiahship’ from Paul’s conception of Jesus is doomed to failure, as I have argued elsewhere.120
