theocracy and a Christocracy—principles for civic and social life (the “second use of the law”).5 In addition, at bottom the Mosaic law has always reflected the correlation between God’s character and that of those called to bear His image. As a result, redeemed people who no longer have reason to fear its curses—and in this sense no longer stand “under the law”—find the law to serve as a positive aid in their growth in grace, that is to say, in their sanctification (the “third use of the law”).