from life to death, announced confidently in the indicative in 2:4–6, was already aimed at the “good works, which God prepared beforehand to be our way of life” (2:10). The “one new humanity” and the “peace” (2:15) that Christ has created and proclaimed quite clearly demanded “the obedience of faith.” And the prayer for strength, coming as it does on the heels of the vocation of the church to make the secret “known to the rulers and authorities” (3:10), clearly presupposes the agency of the church,