The Calvinist International
In today’s passage Contarini moves on from “justice” to “justification” and what “to make” means in the expression “to make just” (he does not here discuss whether this Latin term is the best one to render the NT conception expressed by δικαιόω and related Greek terms, but only breaks the Latin word into its components and […]
In the next passage (part 1; part 2), Contarini adds a fourth sense of the word “justice.” First he had listed the particular virtue of justice; then the universal virtue of justice; then “metaphorical justice,” viz., the harmony of the properly ordered mind. He goes on to say that none of these are sufficient for […]
In the first passage, Contarini had discussed two senses of the term “justice”; he now adds a third (still working from the classical tradition), the metaphorical “justice” of a mind whose powers are all in harmony with one another, where the lower parts obey the higher, and the higher is in a state of rectitude. […]