"Against Thee have I sinned, that Thou mayest be justified" (Psalm 51, v. 4)
"this should be understood thus by setting forth some theses.
First. All men are in sins before God and commit sin, that is, they are sinners in fact.
Second. To this God Himself bore witness through the prophets and established the same at last by the suffering of Christ, for it is on account of the sins of men that He made Him suffer and die.
Third. God is not justified in Himself, but in His words and in us.
Fourth. We become sinners then when we acknowledge ourselves to be such, for such we are before God."
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