were so keen to stress: that all who believe the gospel (Paul ascribes this faith to the Spirit-filled power of that same gospel) are assured of the ultimate “inheritance,” which, in Scriptures both old and new, refers not to a Platonic “heaven” but to the renewed creation, the “new heaven and new earth,” and to the “rescue” from death that consists in resurrection to share in that new world. “Justification”—the verdict “righteous,” issued in the present over faith—thus does indeed point to ultimate