1. Objection: God Can Forgive Sin by Virtue of His Power.
without any satisfaction given by Christ to mankind. °° Answer: The discussion of what God can do in his power is useless and foolish, since God has declared in Scripture that he can forgive sin only on the basis of the satisfaction of Christ 51a tic dmoALTPwOEWS Tic EV Xploto Inood, Rom. 3:24. Cf. Luther's crude rejection of the folly of those who philosophize about God's ability, even though Scripture clearly says what
5:19 does not say: savtov KaTaAAdaaov TP KOaLOr but rather: KOoLOV KATAAAdCOMV éavtd, as can be seen from v. 18: 6é navta Ek Tod Osod tod KatarAdEavtos Huds KTA.
351-352] God actually does and wants to do. ®°) But that GmoAvtpwotc, [redemption] Rom. 3:24 etc, does not denote a liberation in general (as the Socinians and their comrades, also von Hofmann, objected), but rather a redemption through the payment of a ransom, it follows, among other things, incontestably from the fact that the Scriptures explicitly name this ransom, namely Christ himself, Tim. 2:6; Christ's life, Matt. 20:28; Christ's blood, Petr. 1:18.