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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 February 2009
‘Looking to Jesus the pioneer and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of God. Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or fainthearted.’ (Heb. 12.2–3.)
1 Original text may be found in Kirche in der zeit, vol. XVIII, no. 6, June 1963; a translation appeared in Reformed and Presbyterian World, vol. XXVII, no. 7. The ‘Evaluation’ by Karl Barth that follows appeared as ‘Theologisches Gutachten zu den Zehn Artikeln über Freiheit und Dienst der Kirche’ in Evangelische Theologie, vol. XXIII, no. 10, and is translated here by the Rev. H. Martin Rumscheidt, who wishes to thank Professor Barth and the publishers, Chr. Kaiser Verlag, Munich, for their kind permission to translate and publish the article.