Sinai (5)

That the law had served as the schoolmaster to Christ means, so I wrote, that through the law (as transgressed and thus as calling for the nation's doom) in conjunction with the promise, the Lord had worked in the bosom of His church the proper expectancy and yearning for salvation. Now salvation, it is true (so I continued) was being contemplated almost exclusively perhaps as deliverance from foreign oppression. This, as was pointed out, can be explained. Rightly con­sidered it could not very...