to furnish a definition of it that can claim general approval. Yet such an attempt does not seem to be impossible. The theosophical and the eschatological view of regeneration can at once be set aside, since the former does not belong in Christianity and the latter will automatically, based as it is on Matt. 19:28, be considered in the doctrine of the last things.86 This leaves us actually with only three remaining meanings of the word. In the first place, one can use it to describe the transformation