to (a) right (individual) behaviour, as doing what God requires; (b) a just social order as something to be worked for in the present; (c) a just social order as eschatologically achieved; (d) the vindication of God’s people; (e) the free gift of justification; or (f) something which combines human and divine activity: the human doing of God’s will and God working out his own saving purposes in grace and mercy. Various other combinations are possible, and several of the proposals have differing nuances,
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