Both Catholics and Protestants
agree with the argumentation. The author of the epistle should be read in light
of the consensus of early Christian writers, in which case the forensic reality
of justification is always simultaneous and effectual with the ontological sanctification
and renewal of the inner man. (Erick Ybarra, He Bore Our Punishment: Penal
Substitution in the Church Fathers and Beyond [Classical Christian Thought
Publishing Co., 2026], 129 n. 1)
