Quotes about Controversies

especially since you are acquainted with all the Jewish customs and controversies. I beg you, therefore, to listen to me patiently.

But avoid foolish controversies, genealogies, arguments, and quarrels about the law, because these things are pointless and worthless.

requires going beyond the controversies that occasioned the letters to identify claims undergirding Paul's theology that are so fundamental either for Paul or for both Paul and his audience that they are assumed and therefore referenced merely obliquely and relatively rarely.