God intended. The Greek Fathers, who also influenced Law, understood this. Gregory of Nyssa wrote of reform in such words as these: “It is indeed possible for us to return to the original beatitude, if we now will run backward on the same road which we had followed when we were rejected from Paradise together with our forefather [Adam]” (De Virginitate, 12,13). Such a return is made possible through Christ, but it is not easy. Reform involves renunciation, leaving behind the things of the flesh,