by the Ernstfall of the Cross. By the power of the Holy Spirit he is certain of his obedience to the very last and therefore has command of it in advance of his death. This is what makes him so immeasurably superior, so absolutely authoritative in his calling. He does not need to bind himself by any law other than that of his own making, by the identity of his obedience and his freedom at the ultimate point of the goal toward which he is traveling and which he will without fail realize, because his