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In his remarkable\u00a0Acquittal by Resurrection<\/a>, Markus Barth argues that the judgment by which God justifies \u201ccannot be a paradox or a wanton and arbitrary decision.\u201d Barth lays out three conditions that such a judgment must fulfill if it is to be considered righteous: It must have \u201ca solid legal ground,\u201d that is, it must be grounded in God\u2019s own law and covenant; it must do something that has not been done, has not been possible, under the Old Covenant; and it must be such that \u201cnot only the litigants but the public at large\u201d will acknowledge the justice of the verdict (90-92).\u00a0<\/p>\n

Barth is just right here: Justification must be theodicy, rather than an act that raises a question mark over God\u2019s justice. I hope to summarize Barth\u2019s arguments on that point in a later post. For now, my interest is in his second criterion, which he elaborates as follows:<\/p>\n

\u201cPaul teaches distinctly that \u2018on the day (when) God judges the hidden things of men according to the Gospel through Jesus Christ, things hidden to former generations are brought to light. . . . In this judgment the \u2018Jew in hiding\u2019 receives \u2018praise from God\u2019 and Gentiles . . . are manifested as having the fulfillment of the law written upon their hearts. Both Jew and Gentile \u00a0will thus be, without partiality, \u2018justified as doers of the Law\u2019 (Rom. 2:10-15, 29). If God\u2019s judgment reveals something hidden, then the judgment is not arbitrary. It serves exactly the purpose of every decent court \u2013 to unveil obscured facts and to bring to light, to proclaim, and to enforce what is right\u201d (91-2).<\/p>\n

One of the intriguing things about this statement is the light it throws on the conclusion of Romans 2. When Paul says that a true Jew is not the \u201coutward\u201d but the \u201cinward\u201d Jew, not the open Jew but the \u201cJew in hiding,\u201d he still has in mind the revealing, illuminating judgment that he has been talking about throughout Romans 2. Outward Jews seek praise from men; hidden Jews seek praise from God, by doing their righteousness in secret, as Jesus commands (Matthew 6).<\/p>\n

But the inwardness or hiddenness of the true Jew\u2019s circumcision is not permanent and essential, because what is hidden is brought to light in the judgment to receive praise from God. It is hidden for a time, and will be brought to light at the judgment.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"