his neighbor” (Eccles. 4:4), as the realistic ecclesiast puts it, spurs him on to many of the best human achievements. Do they lose their inherent value because they were done out of ethically impure motives? Every noble result of human work is ultimately significant. It is possible that the fire of judgment will not only burn up the results of work, the worker herself escaping “the flames” (1 Cor. 3:15),119 but that the flames of “the absolutely searching and penetrating love of God”120 will envelop