he immediately opens the discussion of the lawsuit question (6:2) is, if possible, even bolder and more joyful. Christians, as such, are not only, as 2:15 prescribes, fundamentally in the position, but are called, to judge the world, and even the angels, to test and distinguish spirits, to recognize and pronounce the last clearest truth. But this high promise, as such, is at the same time also the judgment under which the Church stands. In so far as it is not realized in the Church, the latter is