# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_August 1861_S225
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Lehre und Wehre.

Volume VII.    August 1861.    No. 8.

Theological Axioms.

(Continued.)
XVI. On Justification by Faith.

1. Doctrina de justificatione est articulus stantis et cadentis ecclesiae.

The doctrine of justification is the article with which the church
stands and falls.

2. Justificatio est actio forensis, non physica. (Kromayer.)

Justification is a forensic, not a physical act.

3. Justificatio non in homine, sed circa et extra hominem peragitur.
(Quenstedt.)

Justification takes place not in man, but upon and outside
of man.

4. Vox justificandi proprie et in genere est justum aliquem pronuntiare, sive is justus sit, sive injustus. (Gerhard.)

The word "to justify" means properly and in general to declare someone
righteous, whether he be righteous or unrighteous.

5. Vocabulum justificare in hoc articulo idem significat, quod absolvere a peccatis. (Concordia.)

The word "to justify" means in this article as much as to absolve from sins.

6. Justificatio ex parte hominis est tantum passiva. (Scherzer.)

Justification is on man's side only passive.

7. Justificatio est mutatio moralis. (Dannhauer.)

Justification is a moral change.

8. Peccatum se habet in nobis ut reatus et morbus; justificatio reatum
tollit, sanctificatio morbum sanat. (Gerhard.)

Sin in us has the character of a guilt and of a sickness; justification removes the guilt, sanctification heals the sickness.

9. Peccatum in justificatione tollitur, non ut non sit, sed ne obsit.
(Kromayer.)

Sin is removed in justification, not so that it is no longer
there, but so that it no longer harms.

10. Justificatio nec magis, nec minus recipit. (Dannhauer.)