I still see that that was a legitimate deduction from the Scripture.

"The glory of this world passeth away," and I had professed to be "dead with Christ" to it.

The difference is this.

I am now as "dead" as then to all of it which my conscience discerns to be sinful, but I have not to torment myself in a (fundamentally ascetic) struggle against innocent and healthy impulses.

I now, with deliberate approval, "love the world and the things of the world." I can feel patriotism, and take the deepest interest in the future prospects of nations, and no longer reproach myself.