AUTHOR: Karl Barth (transl. to English)
Could we see nothing but the visible world,
we should not wait; we should accept our
present situation with joy or with grumbling.
Our refusal to accept it and to regard our
present existence as incapable of harmony,
our certainty that there abides in us a secret
waiting for what is not, is, however, intelligible
in the unseen hope which is ours in God,
in Christ, in the Spirit, in the hope by which
we are existentially confronted by the things
which are not. We can the, if we understand
ourselves aright, be none other than they who
wait. We are satisfied to know no more than the
sorrow of the creation and our own sorrow.
We ask nothing better or higher than the Cross,
where God is manifested as God. We must,
in fact, be servants who wait for the coming
of their Lord. [p. 315, Commentary on Romans
second edition ]
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