An institution is fulfilled when it is developed, even though development may carry it beyond itself. In the state in which it was, Judaism could not endure, precisely because it was a way of approach. Its duty, when once Christ had come, was to abdicate in favor of Christ, to renew itself according to His words and His spirit, and thus to enter into a new way, but a way which should be in continuity with the old, as the larva or chrysalis is continuous with the insect into which it is transformed.
