There is such a thing as antinomianism.

There is also such a thing as a false charge of antinomianism. What is charged as antinomianism is not truly antinomianism. Let us call it “pseudo-antinomianism.”

Those who make the false charge of antinomianism proceed to attack the so-called antinomianism. Their position is anti-pseudo-antinomianism.

In this issue we are graced by two articles that take on the false charge and the false chargers of antinomianism. This issue of Sword and Shield, then, is the anti-anti-pseudo-antinomianism issue. Enjoy!

On another note, ever since reading Rev. Langerak’s stirring meditation in this issue, I have been drawn back to Lord Byron’s poem, The Destruction of Sennacherib, and to Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poem, Ozymandias. Both are in the public domain and Ozymandias is reprinted here in full as a companion to the meditation.

May God speed the truths written herein to your heart, and the next issue into your hands.

I met a traveller from an antique land,

Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone

Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,

Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,

And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,

Tell that its sculptor well those passions read

Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,

The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;

And on the pedestal, these words appear:

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;

Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!

Nothing beside remains. Round the decay

Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare

The lone and level sands stretch far away.”