Do you mean MAD does "just Paul" as though no one before them knew how?
Why should that be so shocking - many a thing throughout history has been proven having always been possible, but for the accumulating of understanding sufficient to the task - despite the greatest of minds.
Speaking of this type of what a later, further understanding only then allows the seeing of...
Acts 26:8 Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead? 26:9 I verily thought with myself, that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
Acts 24:14 But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the law and in the prophets: 24:15 And have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.
Fact is that where even the most Scholary of minds look at things from can hinder their actually seeing what it is they are looking at.
The very basis of Martin Luther's "Here I stand" had been this very principle.
Romans 1:17 had been there all along - throughout those 1,500 some odd years that MANY a mind had read right PAST it.
Problem was...problem became...problem still is...the Reformers having failed to make THAT the basis of their recovery of Truth...what it could have been.
They failed to ask, let alone FROM THEN on and UNTIL each their very last breath..."if we were wrong about that; what else might we have been wrong about...and what else...and what else...and how might I know that I have not gradually allowed myself resort to Augustinian reasoning?"
Instead, the pillar of "a sure path to truth" they erroneously continued to see in Augustine's reasoning INTO a thing...is what the Reformed school is well known for.
"I doubt we will ever crack the atom" - Albert Einstein...
Only for his own words to be proven by what later, greater understandings had allowed seeing had been possible...all along.
Just as his advances in understandings in some things later made it possible to identify some holes in some of Newton's findings some 300 years after Newton.