"You may; but all its types are prophecies of Jesus."
"Then we will expatiate on virtue in the general."
"Do so; but Christ is the first exemplar, the brightest representative of all abstract goodness, of all your virtue in the general."
"Then we will take up the ethical maxims."
"Take them up; but they are embodied in Him who is the way, the truth, the life."
"We will resort, then, to human responsibility for our subject of discourse."
"But we must all appear before the judgment seat of that fair-minded arbiter who is man as well as God."
"May we not speak of eternal blessedness?"
"Yes; but it is Christ who welcomes His chosen into life."