8. God is Perfectly Just. In connection with this divine virtue, we may notice again that our creed makes but a partial mention of God’s attributes. In reciting the so-called ethical attributes of God it passes by what might well be called God’s ethical attribute par excellence, namely, the divine holiness, and it makes specific mention of God’s righteousness, or justice. Though we probably cannot say anything with certainty as to the reason for the selection made in this article, we may surmise that there may have been a historical reason why the perfect justice of God stood on the foreground...
