Is Grotius a Grotian?

It’s one of the fun questions of theology: Was Nestorius a Nestorian, Pelagius a Pelagian, Calvin a five-point Calvinist? Etc. Now, was Grotius a Grotian? Not if “Grotian” means “one wno denies penal substitution in favor of a governmental view.”

Consider this summary statement from his Defensio Fidei Catholoicae: De Satisfactione Christi Adversus Faustum Socinum Senensem (1.39): “since Scripture says that Christ was ‘chastised by God’ (i.e. punished), that ‘Christ bore our sins’ (i.e. the punishment of sins), ‘was made sin’ (i.e. was subjected to the punishment of sins), ‘was made a curse in the eyes of God’ or ‘into a curse,’ i.e. liable to the penalty of the law; since, furthermore, the suffering of Christ itself, full of tortures, bloody, ignominious, is a most appropriate matter of punishment; since, moreover, Scripture says that this was inflicted on him by God ‘on account of our sins’ (i.e. our sins so deserving), since death itself is said to be the ‘wages,’ i.e. the punishment of sin, certainly it can be no means be doubted that with regard to God the suffering and death of Christ had the character of a punishment . . . . There is, therefore, a punishment, in God actively, in Christ passively; yet in the passion of Christ there is also a certain action, namely the voluntary endurance of the suffering of punishment.”