Sarah's outward form may die, and as an outward form the
truth she figures may die also, but death only gives to
the spirit greater liberty, so that her death sets forth the
greater spiritualising, even through the destruction of its
outward form, of that truth or affection which she repre-
sents.' And then another form of truth is found, suited to

' Gregory the Great thus allades duplex sepulchmm innnitur, f da-
te this:— •< Quid nobis per Abrahsd plex' reierriog to the name Mach-



Pabt v.] leaaCy or the Spirit of Sonahvp. 263

the advancing development of the elect spirit, that i^ to
Isaac And thus the elect who as the spirit of fiedth is
joined to truth under the Sarah form, when Abraham is old,
when faith is matured, at the next stage as the spirit of son-
ship is united to Bebekah, not another truth, but another
form of it.
