The connection forged between the munus triplex and the two states adds further complexity. Again, Barth mounts a challenge to his orthodox forebears. While he contends that classical Lutheranism used the status exinanitionis to account for Christ’s mundane human existence prior to his exaltation and the status exaltationis to describe the genus maiestaticum, revealed fully in the resurrection, and while he faults the Reformed for finding only ‘incidental application’ (IV/1, p. 133) for the states