a separation achieved through reshaping, through amplification, through progress, just like fruit is distinct from its seed, although fruit comes out of seed. So also the gospel is separated from the law, because it advances from out of the law—something other than the law, but not alien to it, different, though not opposed.31 Tertullian believed there was a single and indivisible salvation history in which the seed planted in the Old Testament bore fruit in the coming of Christ. While there was