Imagine Sin as a small transparent photograph; Torah puts a bright light behind it and a large screen in front of it. Torah brings Adamic Sin to larger-than-life size, precisely and paradoxically in Israel, so that it could be dealt with there. The key link, as we mentioned before, is 7.13, and the key word is hina, ‘in order that’, picking up from the hina in 5.20. In 7.13, Paul declares that God’s purpose in giving Torah – indicated with this repeated hina – was so that ‘Sin might become very sinful indeed, through the commandment’. The purpose of Torah, Paul is saying, was to lure Sin into
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