of living thus was, however, given him only after he had died to the law. This being dead to the law implies two things: (a) his own impotent ethical condition, and (b) his unprofitableness with regard to the law.32 The law can no longer use him. He is what a dead servant would be to his master. However, there is a certain irony in this development too. For, he got into this condition of death, in which he is producing nothing for the law, through the law. The law has put him to death for its service,