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60 was blown away, for the morals vere blown away,destroyed that is, fulfilled, yonder on the cross! Up to that time he had looked upon that shameful death as the chief argument against the "messiahship” proclaimed by the followers of the now doctrine: but how if it was necessary for removing the law? The vast consequences of this idea, of the solution of this mystery, whirled before his eyes: all at once he became the happiest of men. The fate of the Jews, nay, of all mankind, seemed to him to be bound up with this idea, with this momentary flash of enlightenment: he held the thought of thoughts, the key of keys, the light of lights; history, henceforth, would circle round him. For, from that time forth, he was to be the teacher of the destruction of the law. To be lead to evil meant to be deal to the law also; to be in the flesh meant to be in the law also. To be one with Christ meantto live become with Him the destroyer of the law: to have died with Him meant to be dead to the law also.Even if it were still possible to sin, yet it is no longer possible to sin against the law, "I am outside its pale.""If now I were once more to accept the law and to submit to it, I should make Christ the helpmate of sin: for the law was there so that sins might be committed, it constantly brought sin to the surface, as a sharp juice does with a disease. God would never have resolved upon the death of Christ if a fulfilment of the law had been possible without it; now not only all guilt has