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The Romans sometimes compelled a murderer to be bound face-to-face with their victim and to carry the decaying body until the odorous fumes given off by it devoured their life. Under penalty of death, no one was allowed to free the condemned person of the corpse. Was Paul referencing this gruesome practice of a “body of death’’ accompanying him wherever he went as kind of a ‘Show and Tell?’ “Wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from this…..

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