will allow no return to the past. Perhaps he remembers those three days of darkness and agony of mind in Straight Street before Ananias came and the light streamed in. The law had brought him to the gates of death; he was in despair, a condemned criminal, with no hope. So be it; he accepted ‘death’ as far as the law was concerned. He would never again turn to it, hoping to find a path of life. But he had turned from the law as a way of self-commendation to God only in order that he might find the