Apart from Christ’s redemptive work there is no salvation, no deliverance from sin. The cross of Christ needs no legalistic augmentation! The historical cross is an eschatological event. Christ freely sacrificed Himself so that He might deliver us out of the present evil age. As in Jewish thought, the New Testament, and Paul in particular, know of two ages, two contrasting aeons, distinct and discernible.8 The present age, the age ushered in by the arrival of the Messiah, is distinguishable from