apparent foundation in Scripture. Undoubtedly, the Hebrew word הצדיק, the Greek δικαιόω in the Sept. and N.T., often mean, not to make, but to pronounce just by a legal sentence. The judge may in this sense “justify” a man because his cause is good, or from corrupt motives although his cause is bad. Thus in Deut. 25:1, the judges are directed to justify (וְהִצְדִּיקוּ, LXX δικαιώσωσι) the just (i.e. to pronounce him just) and to make the wicked wicked—i.e. to pronounce him to be so. Here the Vulgate