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This is the reason why we expound as much as we can, yet still too weakly, the sufficiency of the law of Christ; we pour it on the sores of the wounded ones who are outside the law, having fallen among robbers who stripped them and beat them. Yea, this law shines brightly like a light in the darkness and the apostles announced its sufficiency to this rebellious people of yore. And they succeeded so well that they could say with justification, "Stand firm thus in the Lord, our beloved!" Otherwise, had they not been successful in establishing Christian faith and virtues, they could not have said this. They could not have spoken of standing firm if these people had not been firm at that time. Moreover, this 'standing firm' implies an obligation to hold fast to what they had been taught. That is the great certainty which they proclaimed saying,

Luke 10:30.

John 1:5.

Phil. 4:1

Gal. 1:8f,