to the latter one an aroma from death to death [a fatal, offensive odor], but to the other an aroma from life to life [a vital fragrance, living and fresh]. And who is adequate and sufficiently qualified for these things?

For if the service which pronounces doom had glory, far more glorious still is the service which tells of righteousness.

So it is nothing strange if his servants also masquerade as servants of uprightness. But their doom will fit their actions.