“For us there is One God (the father, from whom are all things, and we to him); and One Lord ( Jesus the Messiah, through whom are all things and we through him), and you shall love him . . .” It flows better in Greek than in English: Heis theos, ho patēr, ex hou ta panta kai hēmeis eis auton, Kai heis kyrios, Iēsous Christos, di’hou ta panta kai hēmeis di’ autou. This is what made him who he was. This is the reality that burst upon him on the road to Damascus. This, he would have said, is the ultimate explanation for why his work, so contested, so agonizing, so demanding, so inevitably open
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