Righteousness, understood as godly living, by its very nature points beyond the merely material and merely temporal realm of earthly life. To that extent, the recognition of God’s rights and an eschatological orientation are intrinsically interrelated. Even if the idea of new life is not fully elaborated here and is probably just taking shape, the eschatological dimension of existence is quite clear for anyone who by his life seeks the face of God and knows that he will behold it “when he awakes”. The search for God’s face, by its very nature, includes within it the transcendence of time and
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