The work of the Holy Spirit - pagina 411

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JUSTIFICATION FROM ETERNITY ticularly the

about

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Son who in His Incarnation and Resurrection brings is, in more limited sense, the Holy Spirit

justification, so it

particularly

who

reveals this justification to the persons of the

and causes them to appropriate it to themselves. It is by blessed knowlthis act of the Holy Spirit that the elect obtain the edge of their justification, which only then begins to be a living elect

reality to thetn.

For

this reason Scripture reveals these

two

positive, but appar-

ently contradictory truths, with equally positive emphasis: that, on the one hand,

from

eternity;

and

He

has justified us in His own on the other, only in conversion are

(i)

judgment-seat

(2) that,

we

justified by faith.

And tion

;

for this reason faith itself is fruit

while

it is

and

effect of

our justifica-

also true that, for us, justification begins to exist

only as a result of our

faith.

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