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“Thus the one unified body of Christ, striving after the virtues and working hard to bring forth the fruit of the Spirit, must be the missionary body which sets the fourth purpose of God, to sum up all things in heaven and on earth in Messiah. This is what it means, in the present time, to live as the royal priesthood.”

“Virtue, for Paul, is part of inaugurated eschatology, part of the life of the future breaking in to the present. That is why it is both hard and glorious work.”