Thomas Aquinas
Justification taken passively implies a movement towards justice, as heating implies a movement towards heat… justification implies a transmutation from the state of injustice to the aforesaid state of justice. And it is thus we are now speaking of the justification of the ungodly.
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1270 · Summa Theologica I-II, q. 113, a. 1
Checked word-for-word against Summa Theologica · 2026-07-17