Ethics are a consequence of being: first the Lord gives us new life; this is the great gift. Being precedes action, and from this being action then follows, as an organic reality, for we can also be what we are in our activity. Let us thus thank the Lord, for he has removed us from pure moralism; we cannot obey a prescribed law but must only act in accordance with our new identity. Therefore it is no longer obedience, an external thing, but rather the fulfillment of the gift of new life.
