# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1872_S47
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berg (died 1767 as royal Swedish court preacher at Stockholm) may find a place here. He writes: "Had God not raised our Mediator, He would thereby have given to understand that He was not yet satisfied with us; but now, since Jesus is risen, God has thereby declared that He has been satisfied, wherefore Jesus also in His resurrection, as Mediator in the stead of sinners, has been justified. And inasmuch as the whole human race, when it is considered in general and as one person, was justified with Him at the same time, it was also taken up, as a fruit of this justification, into God's covenant of peace, and so the peace which had been lost in Adam was restored between God and men." (Ordnung der Seligmachung des gefallenen Menschen [Order of the Salvation of Fallen Man], p. 103.) The same: "It remains for us in this consideration still to make an application of this to ourselves, whereupon the question arises at once whether all men have been justified with Christ, since He was justified in their stead. To deny this flatly from the outset would be the same as to rob us men of a great comfort, and it would at the same time contend against God's Word, which expressly teaches so. But if one on the other side were to answer this question in the affirmative in such a way that the conclusion should be drawn from it that man now needs no further justification, after he has once been justified in and with Christ, this likewise contradicts God's Word and lays the foundation for a carnal security. Here, then, caution is required, that one hold the right middle way, so that the truth suffers loss on neither side. The Apostle Paul gives us light in this matter when he draws a comparison between Adam and Christ, the two heads of the human race. As for Adam, in the trial he stood not only for himself; but in his one person he represented the whole human race, whose cause rested on him, either to preserve it or to ruin it, so that what he did and what came upon him as a consequence of it was later to be imputed to the whole race and to come upon it, Rom. 5:18, 19. What this first Adam had ruined, our Savior Christ, who is called the second Adam and the other man (1 Cor. 15:45-47), undertook to set up again, and the apostle shows that it stands with Him in the same way, only reversed. Jesus likewise represented in His one person our whole race, which under Him, as one body, one person, one company whose head He was, was regarded. And since the whole guilt of sin of the world was laid on Jesus, the guilt could no longer remain lying on the world, for it could not be in two places at the same time. The world was thus, through Christ's suffering and death, regarded as free and released from all guilt. When Jesus, on whom the whole multitude of sins lay, had fought His way through, so that God, according to His strictest justice, found it just to