134 The same in a lower sphere. CHAP. 



We are here taught that condemnation is to be 

 superseded and to pass away, but righteousness and 

 grace are to endure. Although the language and 

 the metaphors are different, the thoughts of the fore- 

 going passage are nearly the same which the 

 Apostle afterwards worked out in the earlier chapters 

 of the Epistle to the Komans, namely, that the law 

 alone is but a sentence of death, while the Gospel 

 is a spiritual revelation, and brings life; and the 

 Epistle to the Galatians is chiefly occupied with the 

 kindred truth of the subordinate and preparatory 

 character of the Law in relation to the Gospel. The 

 same is taught, though from a different point of 

 view, in that wonderful passage where the Apostle 

 insists on the supreme worth and glory of Love or 

 Charity ; saying that Love is to endure through all 

 eternity, while prophecy shall be merged in fulfil- 

 ment, the revelation taught in language superseded 

 by the vision of truth, and our earthly apparatus of 

 knowledge, with the reasonings on which it is based, 

 exchanged for immediate intuition. 1 



The same is true in a lower sphere. In education, 

 the highest use of the letter is to guide us to the 

 understanding of the spirit ; the highest use of 

 authority is to train us to be independent of 

 authority. Though everything in Euclid is true, and 

 it is better to receive Euclid's truths on his authority 

 than to remain altogether ignorant of them, yet the 

 man who believes them on Euclid's authority only is 

 1 1 Cor. xiii. 8. 



