ruled, ebasileusen, as well as looking forward to the place where men will rule, basileusousin, in life (v. 17). He has accurately recognized and explained both results in their inner nature and at the same time has given each its due place. For the two results are quite different. On the one side the logical connection between sin and death is unmistakably obvious, but the practical outcome of the rule of death is impossibly strange: while on the other side the logical connection between sin and