It's a whole lot more than "acquit"

God’s righteousness involves not only a great reversal (“the first will be last”) but also an actual transformation and re-creation. When radicalized in terms of Vaclav Havel’s insight about the line that runs through each person, the dikaiosyne of God means that no human being whatsoever will be exempt from or immune to his justifying action. Taking this a step further, we begin to see that when we say God will “justify” rather than merely “acquit,” the action has a reconstituting force — hence the insufficiency of the courtroom metaphor “to acquit.” God’s righteousness is the same thing as his justice, and his justice is powerfully at work justifying, which does not mean excusing, passing over, or even “forgiving and forgetting,” but actively making right that which is wrong. 329 (emphasis original)