therefore it had no other task than to live as the people of God. The command, “Be ye holy, for I am holy,” has rightly been called the epitome of the entire Old Testament revelation. The foundation of Israel’s life, of all its manifestations, and hence of every admonition, is this belonging to God. This admonition, far from being at variance with the sanctifying act of God, rests upon it. Changing the words of Kuyper, “being sanctified and, yet, to be sanctified,” to “being sanctified and therefore