'...Sin itself receives a measure-for-measure punishment from God: although it sought precisely to suppress God's revelation, it is - against its own will - press-ganged into service as an agent of that revelation.'
Simon J Gathercole, 'Sin in God's Economy: Agencies in Romans 1 and 7' in Divine and Human Agency in Paul and his Cultural Environment (Edited by John MG Barclay & Simon J Gathercole), p. 172.
