The gold is divine righteousness, as in the nature of God. According to this, Christ, having glorified God in all that He is, is received within as man, and sits at God's right hand; we, partakers of the divine nature, being of God in Christ Jesus, created after God in righteousness and true holiness, and renewed in knowledge after the image of Him who created us, united to Him whom God has set on high, have our place at God's right hand (not personally, of course; that could not be but in Him) in that heavenly place according to the delight of God's nature, for that is in Christ. It is fellowship with this, or restoration to it, which is the character of our approach to God, as simply enjoying it in the new nature; it is not in contrast with evil; it is not forgiveness of what is past, save as that is in its place. I have for faith—and shall have in fact—entirely done with the nature which sinned, and the whole state of existence in which flesh moved. I exist only in the new creation. Hence, the Apostle says he did not even know Christ after the flesh any more. It is the joy of the new man in the presence and blessedness and glory of God.