that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the Law; moreover, that in so teaching, so far from making the Law void through faith, he establishes it. He means then to speak to the Jews as follows.—“Throw yourselves on God’s mercy, surrender yourselves to Him; the Law in which you pride yourselves, holy as it is in itself, has been to you but an occasion of sin. You are in bondage; you have no real sanctity, no high aims, no inward growth, no power of pleasing God. Instead of having done