they were also surely motivated partly by a dogmatic scheme in which the true theological account of ethics is viewed as divine command. Similarly, when Karl Barth maintained that in placing ourselves under the obligations laid down in biblical ethics we are taking on the obligation to obey God, the divine Commander (see Biggar), he was not primarily saying that an obedience-ethic happens to predominate, as a matter of historical fact, in the biblical documents. He was saying that, seen from the