The Seba library treats Dikaiosun in 8 passages, across 1 author (including John of Damascus).
he will judge all the world in justice. All things are far apart from God, not in place but in nature... goodness is concomitant with essence.
This passage identifies divine justice as an attribute coterminous with God's essence, establishing dikaiosun as an ontological rather than merely juridical category.
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the fountain of goodness, righteousness and everlasting light, maker of all things visible and invisible, containing and sustaining all
Righteousness is enumerated alongside goodness and light as an essential divine attribute in the creedal confession of Ioasaph, anchoring dikaiosun within Trinitarian theology.
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grant it to bear fruit, the fruit of righteousness. Strengthen him, and confirm in him thy covenant, and rescue him from the deceit of the devil.
In Barlaam's baptismal prayer, righteousness appears as the spiritual fruit the soul is called to bear, directly opposed to diabolical deception and sin.
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the way of truth which leadeth its wayfarers unto the eternal kingdom promised by Christ in the life to come
The Christian life of righteous and holy conduct is presented as the via recta toward eschatological fulfillment, aligning dikaiosun with salvific purpose.
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man, fallen from union with God, stumbled into these manifold errors, becoming the slave of sins, and subject unto death through the tyranny of the devil
The fall from right-orderedness is depicted as enslavement to sin and death, implying that dikaiosun is the original condition restored through the Incarnation and redemption.
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nothing is to be preferred before showing mercy... he that is held by the ties of loyalty is steadfast in his obedience to the ruling power
Mercy is positioned as the supreme imitation of divine righteousness in the governance of earthly affairs, showing how dikaiosun mediates between divine and social order.
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the Greeks, professing themselves to be wise, fell into greater folly than the Chaldeans, alleging the existence of many gods, some male, others female, creators of all passions and sins of every kind
Idolatry is characterized as the systematic inversion of righteousness, wherein divine order is replaced by passions and sin, underscoring dikaiosun's role as the corrective norm.
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thou comest up from thence a new man, pure from all pollution, with no spot or wrinkle of sin upon thee; and thenceforward it is in thy power ever to keep for thyself the purity that thou gainest hereby
Baptism is described as the ritual restoration of moral purity, the foundation upon which the life of righteousness is henceforth to be freely maintained.
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