What a Great Savior!

Having just mentioned God's grace and God's great salvation in Christ, Paul seems to go off on a tangent. He seems to go wild with excitement. He was so enthusiastic with regard to Christ and his great sin-atoning sacrifice that the very thought of Christ's blood stirred his blood. If you read the chapter as it ought to be read, observing its grammatical structure, it seems that Paul wrote verses 15-29 like a man whose hand was on fire. He could not write fast enough or express himself adequately. He was enrapt in his subject, raptured in his soul, as he began to write about Christ.