Another passage which the Lutherans cite in their favor is 1 Cor. I, 30: “... who [Christ Jesus] of God is made unto us wisdom, and justice, and sanctification, and redemption.”(937) Christ is made unto us justice and sanctification, in what sense? Manifestly in the same sense in which He is made unto us wisdom of God, that is to say, in so far as He imparts to us wisdom, which thereupon becomes our own, but not in the sense that the wisdom of Christ is outwardly imputed to us. Note that St. Paul in this and many other passages of his Epistles merely wishes to emphasize the gratuity of the Redemption and of grace to the exclusion of all natural merit on the part of man.(938) b) As regards the teaching of the Fathers, the “Reformers” themselves admitted that it was against them.(939) We read in the Epistle of Barnabas, which was probably composed about A. D. 100:(940) “Since then He made us new by the remission of sins, he made us another type, that we should have the soul of children, as though He were creating us afresh.” The reason why St. Paul calls Baptism the “laver of regeneration” rather than the laver of forgiveness, is explained by St. John Chrysostom(941) as follows: “Because it [Baptism] not only remits our sins and wipes out our misdeeds, but accomplishes all this in such a way as if we were born anew;(942) for it entirely re-creates and re-forms us.”(943) St. Ambrose regards innocence as the positive element of justification: “After this [_i.e._ Baptism] you received a white robe, to indicate that you stripped off the vesture of sin and put on the chaste garments of innocence.”(944)