The concept of justification is a relative one. To be justified is not merely to be just but also to be acknowledged as such. And so it implies a relation with a judgment rather than a mode of being. Use of the term to designate a new aspect of the new being that Christianity gives us, dates from St. Paul’s controversies with the Judaizers. They held that a man is just if he observes the law by the minute keeping of particular commandments rather than by a general disposition to serve and love G…