 Socrates then explores the idea that reverence is a proper part of justice, without finding a way to specify what part it is. Attempts to differentiate reverence from justice by appeal to the gods lead back to the better answer that was refuted earlier. The conclusion is aporia (impasse); many scholars believe that it points to a theoretical conclusion, a component of Socrates’ doctrine of the unity of virtue. There is no way to differentiate reverence from justice in a definition, because there is no essential difference between them; reverence is simply justice described with reference to the love that the gods bear for justice. Other scholars have held that Socratic reverence is the specific duty we have to the gods that we cultivate all of virtue in our souls, as suggested by Socrates’ claim in the Apology that his mission was given him by the god (Woodruff 2019).