The Old Testament
The Old Testament
That Paul was heavily indebted to the Old Testament in the formulation of his teaching is revealed by the more than ninety quotations from the Old Testament in his letters. Perhaps even more important, however, are the many allusions to the Old Testament—places where Paul uses Old Testament language without clearly quoting—and the inestimable degree to which the Old Testament has formed Paul’s conceptual world. Paul, of course, uses the Old Testament selectively and interprets it in a definite context, reading it through the lens of Jesus’ fulfillment of "the Law and the Prophets.”