Because "they have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb, therefore are they before the throne of God." This, at all events, has been the Catholic teaching of Christendom in all ages and fill the hymnology of the Church in all its various branches. to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever." And the presence of the redeemed there at all is distinctly stated to rest upon the sacrifice of Christ. Heaven rings with the grateful acclaim, "Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood.
He was "delivered up for our offences." So here "the chastisement of our peace was upon him and with his stripes we are healed." It is not enough to say that the pride of the Jew and the scorn of the Greek and the power of the Roman crucified him. "He gave himself." But he was more than wounded by the treatment of his character, and by the contempt of his claims, and by the forsakings of his own disciples. THIS IS THE REVELATION OF DIVINE SACRIFICE. But into "the cup which my Father hath given me to drink" no man, no angel, can look. But the fact remains and, mysterious as it is, we learn that there was a Godward aspect of it, as well as a manward aspect. From Anselm's day to our own there have been ever-changing theories of it. Statham But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities. Vicarious Sacrifice in the Intellectual World
The Servant of the Lard Pictured as a Leper The Death of Christ a Propitiation for Sin Sadder and Mysterious Aspects of Vicarious Suffering The Divine Account of the Sufferings of Christ The Mean Appearance of the Redeemer Foretold The Human Race Typified by the Man of Sorrows Lessons from the Manner of Christ's Appearing The Rarity of Believing the Gospel-Report
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The Might of the Saving Arm, and How to Obtain It The Little Success of the Gospel Matter of Lamentation The Credibility and Importance of the Gospel Report Divine Power Necessary for Believing the Gospel Report
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