commonplace clear to the end of the Church period. From the outer non-Jewish world, where these letters mostly take us, there is a quiet turn back to things at the Jew centre. The first Bishop of Jerusalem reveals the custom and the teaching that continued in the old mother Church. There was plainly no lessening of the teaching there, nor of the blessed experience1. Then the circle of this wondrous old twin-book of God swings back to the starting point. There’s a garden at both ends, Genesis and