 The judicial understanding of conscience continued well into the first century of the Common Era. To be sure, Paul himself continued to employ it. At the same time, D’Arcy credited Paul with introducing, in addition to the “judicial conscience”, a novel conception he termed the “legislative conscience”. It is not difficult to see why the earlier judicial conception would later take on legislative features. This is because the ability to judge past actions as either right or wrong—and to issue exhortations on that basis—would, once this property came to be associated with the moral law, take on the legislative role of issuing commands. Indeed, it is in St. Paul that we find this very association between syneidesis and the moral law: