L'oxygène du péché
I. La loi est révélatrice v. 7
It would be the height of folly to take a bottle from the shelf and remove the unpleasant label with its skull and crossbones and its bold letters, “Poison,” putting on instead an attractive label bearing the words, “Essence of Peppermint.” This would only conceal the true nature of the contents of the bottle and invite the unsuspecting to drink and die. Such a practice would not only be folly but criminal as well; yet this is the practice of modern man when faced with the ugly fact of sin.
II. La loi est provocatrice v. 8-11
III. La loi est condamnatrice. v. 12-13
The law does not reward us for keeping its commands; it only punishes us for breaking them. Who has ever been stopped by a police officer and told to report at once to the police station to be rewarded for driving in an orderly fashion through a speed zone and for stopping correctly at all the marked intersections! It is not the normal function of the law to congratulate the law-abiding citizen, only to expose, condemn and punish the lawbreaker