Eschatology is cast through the prism of light in Romans 13:11-14: it\u2019s all about living in the light: \u201cthe night is far gone, the day is near.\u201d Eschatology is cast through the prism of light in Romans 13:11-14: it\u2019s all about living in the light: \u201cthe night is far gone, the day is near.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":197,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1752],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-romans"],"yoast_head":"\n
\nFor Paul, \u201cnight\u201d here means living in the flesh, sinfulness, etc.. The \u201cday\u201d then is living a life shaped by love of neighbor, etc..
\nWright observes, and I had forgotten this, that this was Augustine\u2019s conversion passage: \u201cpick up and read\u201d (tolle lege<\/em>). It\u2019s a little overwhelming for me to ponder this passage in light of all Augustine has come to mean.
\nA major issue (for theology) is how Paul ties moral behavior to eschatology \u2014 in light of the arriving \u201cday,\u201d Christians are to live appropriately. I don\u2019t know how many of my readers think of this, but one can sense either that Paul got it wrong or that Paul was like everyone else (which I believe to be true): a sense of imminency that was cushioned always by a sense of not knowing with precision when God might wrap up plans for planet earth.
\nTo show how Christocentric Paul\u2019s (and Wright\u2019s) thinking are: the moral behavior can be summed up as \u201cputting on Christ\u201d (13:14).<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"