leaves us on just the same level with the most ignorant as to what the Divine Spirit actually is in itself.

We all alike have to come back to the standpoint of a simple faith in the vitalising working of the energising power, whether God or electricity, and therefore the Bible simplifies matters by bidding us take this ultimate position as our starting-point, and not say, "I am confident because I know the law", but "I am confident because I know in whom I have believed".

Law and Faith

I think some such considerations as these must have been at the back of St Paul's mind, making him draw that distinction between Law and Faith which runs through all his Epistles. It is true he is, in the first instance, speaking of the ceremonial law of the Mosaic ritual, for he was addressing Jews for the most part; but if we reflect that reliance on that ceremonial was only one particular mode of relying upon knowledge of laws, we shall see that the principle is applicable to all laws; and moreover the original Greek word used by St Paul implies law in general, thus giving a scope to his argument which makes it as applicable to ourselves as to Jews.

And the point is this: laws are statements of the relations of certain things to certain other things under certain conditions. Given the same things and the same conditions, the same laws will come into play because the same relation has been established between