justification and how one gets saved. (We will wrestle again with this issue in chapter 5.) So, on the face of it, Wright’s definition of justification as “God’s eschatological definition, both future and present, of who was, in fact, a member of his people” does not fit well with Paul’s use of justification language. In and of itself, this may not be a devastating mistake, because it may simply conflate denotation and implication. In other words, justification does not denote or mean covenant membership,