sorrow upon sorrow and even through the gospel itself bring his justice and wrath to bear!” As he continued to think about the phrase, he wrote, “I noticed the context of the words, namely, ‘The justice of God is revealed in it; as it is written, the just shall live by faith.’ Then and there, I began to understand the justice of God as that by which the righteous man lives by the gift of God, namely by faith, and this sentence, ‘The justice of God is revealed in the gospel’ to be that passive justice