government, motivated by fear alone he tacitly consented to the charge, even though Christ, in anticipation of this, and to protect him from this blunder, had declared: ‘My kingdom is not of this world.’4 However, surrendering himself completely to the interests of this life, Pilate had no desire to do right to the point of heroism, though his wife’s dream must have terrified him greatly. On the contrary, nothing influenced him for the better, nor was he moved at all by unworldly considerations,