biblical utterances on moral issues. First of all there is a general question of methodology, for it is quite simply wrong to say that things inherited from elsewhere can never attain separate and distinctive existence. Our own life tells us this; the theological affirmation “What have you that you did not receive?” can be demonstrated even at a purely human level. We know it, too, from the whole history of civilization: the greatness of a civilization is seen in its ability to communicate, its ability