these also, God has opened up and shown to us the way of overcoming the flesh. This perfect virtue, and absolute by every reckoning, imparts the crown and reward of immortality to the victors. I have spoken of lowliness and weakness and passion and why God should have preferred to undergo these. Now an account of the cross itself must be rendered and we must tell of its power. Why the Almighty Father decided it from the beginning, and how He ordained all things which were done, not only