Full Text for Objective Justification, part 2 (Text)
the objective
justification, while the statement concerning the non-imputation of
the trespasses deals with the subjective justification. The Glossa of
Flacius, it would seem, takes this position: "For in a threefold way
OUI' salvation is accomplished: by the Father as the Author and
Lord; by the Son as the Mediator, meriting and acquiring it; and
by the Holy Spirit as the Teacher. . .. So also in a threefold manner
the Father procures our salvation, first, by sending the Son, an act
which lies in the past and is finished; secondly, by giving and sending
the doctrine and the teachers, rendering their word efficacious; thirdly,
by pardoning, or not imputing, sins, that is, by absolving us; and
these two acts take place at all times." So also the commentary of
572 Objective Justification.
Lucas Osiander: "God, the true God, dwelling in the man Ohrist as
in His most holy temple, through the suffering and death of that
Mediator, reconciled the world unto Himself. And this reconciliation
consists in this (reconciliatio autem in eo sita est,' solehe Versoeh-
nung aber bestehet darauf), that God no longer imputes, but forgives,
sins to the penitent sinners who believe in Ohrist. And in order that
we may obtain this benefit, this reconciliation, the ministry of the
Word of God has been ordained and instituted that we may believe
the Gospel, be justified, and saved." H.Olshausen, Biblischer Kom-
men tar : "V. 18. . . . Oonsidered objectively, it should be added, the
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