comes out most plainly at this point. The Spirit unites the community to the body of Christ and thus creates for itself spatially a field of earthly activity, a sphere of power which corresponds antithetically to the sphere of the rule of flesh or of the “letter.” [205] The cosmic dualism toward which Hellenistic Judaism was already tending (cf. Brandenburger, Fleisch) is apocalyptically changed. The power of the resurrection world breaks into the old aeon and brings about a worldwide conflict into