gospel, not between law and law. Only the gospel is the end of the law. The crucial problem is the question of the misunderstanding and misuse of the law. Barth, in his concern to exclude the misunderstood and misused law, must introduce another law which is the true law. Barth, of course, is entirely correct in maintaining that man’s misuse of the law is the basic mark of his sin, and that it is precisely from this misuse that he must be rescued; as we have seen, there should be no quarrel on this