# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1872_S45
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rection first of all justified for His own person, Is. 50:5, 1 Tim. 3:16, since the justice of God declared that it was fully paid and satisfied by this our surety, and as it were issued Him a receipt for it, and that took place in His resurrection, when He was let out of His debtors' prison and set at liberty. Now since the surety has been justified, all debtors have also been justified in Him." (Ausführliche Erklärung der Epistel an die Römer [Detailed Exposition of the Epistle to the Romans], p. 322.) The same on Rom. 5:19: "The justification of the human race has indeed taken place, with regard to the acquiring of it, in a single moment, in the moment when Christ rose and was thus declared righteous; but with regard to the appropriation it goes on still until the Last Day." (Same work, p. 386.) Adam Struensee writes: "What Paul says in 2 Cor. 5:15 of the death of Christ: 'We thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead,' this can also be applied to the resurrection of Christ: If one has risen for all, then all have risen and been justified; because God was in Christ and reconciled the world unto Himself and did not impute their sins to them, for He imputed them to Christ." (Zeugnisse der Wahrheit zur Gottseligkeit, VIII. Fortsetzung, Halle 1741, p. 30 f.) Ph. D. Burk: "It is indeed not to be denied that Scripture in many places speaks of justification as a universal benefit of grace of God toward all men; e.g. Rom. 5:18: 'By the righteousness of One the justification of life has come upon all men.' Likewise 2 Cor. 5:19: 'God reconciled the world unto Himself and did not impute their sin to them.' And a witness of the truth must in every way drive the Gospel home in such a manner that he makes the universal offer of grace of God to all men his chief work. And every soul that is to come to faith must lay the foundation in the knowledge of this universal justification over all men." (Die Rechtfertigung [Justification], Stuttgart, 1763, p. 62 f.) The Iowans know very well that the people whom they seek to take under their protection against the Norwegian Synod stand wrongly in the doctrine of justification, of absolution, of the means of grace; since they nevertheless defend those who teach thus in the Augustana Synod, they show thereby sufficiently of what spirit they are children, and how much the pure doctrine matters to them. That in this matter they are concerned more with quarrelling than with the matter itself is also seen from the fact that they have said not a word against a writing by Dr. Weber, who taught the same thing in clear words. Dr. Weber, however, is just one of their own and Pastor Löhe's successor. Now that the Norwegians say the same, the Iowans fall upon them hotly as upon dreadful false teachers. And what is it, finally, that they are able to attack? That Christ the