People need to be warned against an unjust acquittal, no less than against unjust condemnation. The word “justifieth” has its forensic sense, “to declare righteous,” to acquit.
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Proverbs 17:15
15 He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, even they both are abomination to the LORD.