are no claims to pre-eminence or security before the Judge. There is also the “other terrible miracle” (62) of the wrath that awaits the unrighteous. Even the most fervent devotion, the greatest obedience, and the utmost humility can still be forms of human unrighteousness. The acquitting of oneself or the condemnation of that phantasmal “other” that embodies everything sinful are ways of replacing the Judge. But God always remains Judge: “The Judge will never deprive Himself of his right to judge