Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 BL

[‘The Old Testament image of ‘the bones’, the scaffolding, always longing to stand before the Lord, like consciencefree’, had been emptied by the very religion that preached God’s Covenant.

When Paul decried the ‘sins of the flesh’, he could, just as well, have called them ‘sins of the bones’.

If the bones cannot stand before the Lord, then nothing, in humans, stands firm.]