2. The Judge Judged in Our Place | Karl Barth | Page 267 | Part I "God is in this triumph of humanity and the world as ruled by Satan, whether He is forced to retreat or to abdicate or to die in face of it." God rules and does His work, the work which Jesus has to finish and is determined to finish, He is the living Lord even of the world which is in conflict with Him. As such He can never be idle, He can never grow weary, He can never resign. And we have to seek the problem of Gethsemane (1) in the content of what He says, (2) in the fact that He is quite alone in what He says, without companion or helper, and (3) in the fact that the answer of God will be given only in the language of facts."