"I meditated day and night until, by the mercy of God, I gave heed to the logical sequence of the words, namely: “In it the righteousness of God is revealed, as it is written, ‘He who is righteous lives by faith.’” I then began to understand that the righteousness of God is that by which he who is righteous lives by a gift of God, namely by faith. And this is the meaning: the righteousness of God is revealed by the gospel, that is to say, the passive righteousness by which the merciful God justifies us by faith. As it is written: “He who is righteous lives by faith.” Here I felt that I had been utterly born again, and had entered paradise itself through open gates. Immediately, the whole of Scripture took on a different form to me. I then ran through the Scriptures from memory, and also found analogous meanings in other terms, such as “the work of God,” that is, what God works in us; “the power of God,” by which He makes us powerful; “the wisdom of God,” by which He makes us wise; “the strength of God”; “the salvation of God”; “the glory of God.”"