But he did not separate the Jewish law from that commentary and complement to it which is given to us in Christ—from the word planted in us by the preaching of the gospel. Explained by Jesus, changed by His Spirit into a principle of the inner life, the law had become for him the royal law, a law of liberty, the wisdom which is from above.1 James, then, did not take the view of the law of an ancient Pharisee, who would have seen in it only a means of establishing his own righteousness, and of laying