Echoes of gospel

Christ is the hermeneutical key to both Scripture and history, because all of reality takes its bearings from the unique and particular event of his death and resurrection. It is the good news of an event that Paul hears resonating backwards and forwards in history, and backwards and forwards in the text. To invert a well-known phrase, Paul finds echoes of the gospel in the Scriptures of Israel.—J. M. G. Barclay, Paul and the Gift, 418 (emphasis original)