eternal law of the moral order which by ourselves we could not follow. Then God justifies us. We have the righteousness of God and the sense of having it; we are freed from the oppressing sense of eternal order guiltily outraged and sternly retributive; we act in joyful conformity with God's will, instead of in miserable rebellion to it; we are in harmony with the universal order, and feel that we are in harmony with it. If, then, Christ was delivered for our sins, he was raised for our justification. If by Christ's death, says Paul, we were reconciled to God, by the means being thus provided for our else impossible access to God, much more, when we have availed ourselves of these means and died with him, are we saved by his life which we partake.[98] Henceforward we are not only justified but sanctified; not only in harmony with the eternal order and at peace with God, but consecrated[99] and unalterably devoted to them; and from this devotion comes an ever-growing union with God in Christ, an advance, as St. Paul says, from glory to glory.[100] [Footnote 94: _Rom._, v, 8.] [Footnote 95: _Acts_, xx, 21.] [Footnote 96: _Gal._, v, 6.] [Footnote 97: _Eph._, iv, 24.] [Footnote 98: _Rom._, v, 10.] [Footnote 99: The endless words which Puritanism has wasted upon _sanctification_, a magical filling with goodness and holiness, flow from a mere mistake in translating; +hagiasmos+ means _consecration_, a setting apart to holy service.] [Footnote 100: II _Cor._, iii, 18.] This is Paul's conception of Christ's sacrifice. His figures of ransom, redemption, propitiation, blood, offering, all subordinate themselves to his central idea of _identification with Christ through dying with him_, and are strictly subservient to it. The figured speech of Paul has its own beauty and propriety. His language is, much of it, eastern language, imaginative language; there is no need for turning it, as Puritanism has done, into the methodical language of the schools. But if it is to be turned into methodical language, then it is the language into which we have translated it that translates it truly.