of in 2 Corinthians 5:17 means the beginning of that world-renewal in which all eschatology culminates. Undoubtedly in all this there is some one-sidedness and exaggeration. Altogether too much has been made, in calling attention to the above and other allied facts, of the element of time, as if the peculiar perspective in these matters could be explained from the early Christian belief in the nearness of the parousia. When this chronological element is unduly pressed, such monstrosities result as