The German scholar Dieter Georgi, however, has argued that Paul was not simply speaking of the Torah in this letter but was referring to law in general. In the diaspora, the universalizing outlook of some Hellenized Jews had led them, like some of the Greek philosophers, to regard the ancestral laws of various peoples as different reflections of the will of God. So they maintained that Israel was not alone in possessing God’s law; each nation had developed its own version of the eternal law that exists in the mind of God.
