The text deals with the contrast between the two covenants (of the law and of the gospel). French intellectual Blaise Pascal so well describes our circumstances according to the law (the Old Covenant), according to way we live without Christ in view: "Our imagination so magnifies the present, because we are continually thinking about it, and so reduces eternity, because we do not think about it, that we do not think about it, that we turn eternity into nothing and nothing into eternity" (Pensees, p. 164).
