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...we, by contrast, are bound to means. Scripture is and remains a “means of grace.” Conversely, faith in Christ in turn affects our belief in Scripture. It binds and fastens us securely to Scripture and causes us to trust it in times of distress and death. Our soul, accordingly, may be inseparably bound to Christ, the living Lord in the heavens, by the mystical union forged by the Holy Spirit; still, to our consciousness, Christ, in fact the whole realm of “things hoped for,” exists only through the witness of God in his Word.