_Rom. 4:25_—“_who was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our justification_”; _5:18_—“_unto all men to justification of life._” Griffith‐Jones, Ascent through Christ, 367, 368—“Raised for our justification” = Christ’s death made our justification possible, but it did not consummate it. Through his rising from the dead he was able to come into that relationship to the believer which restores the lost or interrupted sonship. In the church the fact of the resurrection is perpetuated, and the idea of the resurrection is realized. (_c_) δικαίωμα—is the act, as already accomplished, of declaring a man just,—that is, no longer exposed to penalty, but restored to God’s favor (Rom. 5:16, 18; _cf._ 1 Tim. 3:16). Hence, in other connections, δικαίωμα has the meaning of statute, legal decision, act of justice (Luke 1:6; Rom. 2:26; Heb. 9:1). _Rom. 5:16, 18_—“_of many trespasses unto justification ... through one act of righteousness_”; _cf._ _1 Tim. 3:16_—“_justified in the spirit._” The distinction between δικαίωσις and δικαίωμα may be illustrated by the distinction between poesy and poem,—the former denoting something in process, an ever‐working spirit; the latter denoting something fully accomplished, a completed work. Hence δικαίωμα is used in _Luke 1:6_—“_ordinances of the Lord_”; _Rom. 2:26_—“_ordinances of the law_”; _Heb. 9:1_—“_ordinances of divine service._” (_d_) δικαιοσύνη—is the state of one justified, or declared just (Rom. 8:10; 1 Cor. 1:30). In Rom. 10:3, Paul inveighs against τὴν ἰδίαν δικαιοσύνην as insufficient and false, and in its place would put τὴν τοῦ Θεοῦ δικαιοσύνην,—that is, a δικαιοσύνη which God not only requires, but provides; which is not only acceptable to God, but proceeds from God, and is appropriated by faith,—hence called δικαιοσύνη πίστεως or ἐκ πίστεως. “The primary signification of the word, in Paul’s writings, is therefore that state of the believer which is called forth by God’s act of acquittal,—the state of the believer as justified,” that is, freed from punishment and restored to the divine favor. _Rom. 8:10_—“_the spirit is life because of righteousness_”; _1 Cor. 1:30_—“_Christ Jesus, who was made unto us ... righteousness_”; _Rom. 10:3_—“_being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own, they did not subject themselves to the righteousness of God._” Shedd, Dogm. Theol., 2:542—“The ‘_righteousness of God_’ is the active and passive obedience of incarnate God.” See, on δικαιοσύνη, Cremer, N. T. Lexicon, Eng. trans., 174; Meyer on Romans, trans., 68‐70—“δικαιοσύνη Θεοῦ (gen. of origin, emanation from) = rightness which proceeds from God—the relation of being right into which man is put by God (by an act of God declaring him righteous).”