Paul was out then with a defini challenge to the existing philosophy life, which turned on virewe for the individual and lay for society. Not that virtue and law were any thing but good. in themselves, "but they! were not equal to the social and international demands of the age, And they failed because of two leficiencies, the lack of comprehensive: reach and of compelling power. Just fas China in the 20th century has developed needs that cannot be met out of the code of Confucius with its stress on duty and virtue, 20 the Roman Empive which had Feemtemerged from the chaos of the Roman Republic the problems both government and of conscience had vastly increased and demanded a new Intellectual standing ground. Tt wa Ieeause Paul was convinced that the secret ley in the Gospel that we see him standing as it were on tiptoe in eagerness as he looks across the sea Rome.
"Lam proud of the Gospel" he "because for the frst time it binds in stable union the best in man with the best in God, man's faith getting a grip on God's righteous. ness, For the first time it gives man a power of leverag> outside himself, whether he longs to be lifted above moral impotence, of as a cit zen desires to be raised above social anarchy.
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