This means that a confession will be a kind of commentary on Scripture, “in the speech of its age.” It cannot be anything more than a commentary; it must not try to stand on the same level as Scripture. It thus clearly has limits: it is limited by its origin and by its object. It has geographical and temporal limits, which is why new confessions will always be needed, in order to confess the faith afresh in a new situation. As Barth’s translators rather ungrammatically render him, “In every case