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“For what else than that one’s righteousness could cover up our sin? In who else than in the Son of God alone could our lawlessness and ungodliness possibly be justified? Oh, the sweet exchange! … Oh, the unexpected benefits that the lawlessness of many should be concealed in the one righteous, and righteousness of the one should justify many lawless.”
-Epistle to Diognetus, chp 9

506 and still protesting.

“And we, therefore, having been called through His will in Christ Jesus, we are not justified through ourselves, or through our wisdom or understanding or piety or deeds which we accomplished in holiness or heart, but through the faith by which all since the beginning the Almighty God has justified.”
-Clement’s first letter