Known only as a code of rules to which we must make our lives conform—a “law of commandments contained in ordinances”—it is but a “yoke of bondage,” because one’s best efforts to keep it are themselves only sin; “for the Scripture hath concluded [shut up] all under sin;” and with each work “done in righteousness which we did ourselves,” the law but tightens its death grip on us, and strengthens the bars of our prison. But “the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.” 32 Corinthians 3:17. Therefore in Christ the law is the “perfect law of liberty.” 4James 1:25. EVCO 346.1