might be adapted to affirm that when we pray it is not we who pray, but Christ who prays for us, and that our prayers offered in the flesh (our creatureliness) we predicate on the faithfulness of the Christ who loved us and sacrificed himself for us.30 You may ask: how can this be? His answer is: through Christ and the Spirit. Torrance’s contribution has much to commend it. But to speak of the Spirit’s mediatorial role when Scripture accents that of Christ is distinctly unhelpful. The economic operations