The Christian sees and acknowledges “the continuing sin of men and above all of himself among them,” but “he expects the coming of Jesus Christ in glory. . . . This implies something forceful and decisive. . . . It means even for him, too, glory and reward and gain. It means pardon in the final and strictest sense. . . . It means his translation out of the darkness around into the great coming light” (IV/3.2, 244).
