What if God, Desiring to Show His Wrath, Has Endured With Much Patience?

i think paul's interpretif logic with the hosea quotations and the meaning that he finds in them, it's based on his christology. And we'll get to that in a moment. But the point i just want to make here is that when paul throws these out too his judar jewish readers, at least, they're going to wave, wave a red flag and say, ok, what are you doing? Cause that, you know, if they were familiar with the context, they would know this is about jews. It's because of his christologyis because of what he aady believes about jesus. A he believes jesus is the