Thursday 20 October 2011

Prof. James Denney's "Death of Christ" Part 2.


“...the Gracious One He has consented to be satisfied with that suffering of death which He has made possible for humanity in Christ.The suffering of death is that which God in His grace is pleased to claim from the sinful race as the condition of restored fellowship.”  (p. 177).

“He is righteous, for in the death of Christ His law is honoured by the Son who takes the sin of the world to Himself as all that it is to God.;...” (p. 177). 

“..and the sin of the world for which in His blood He is the propitiation?” (p. 177).

“...…in Colossians we are confronted with a new situation. ‘The world’ which is the object of reconciliation is no longer as in 2 Corinthians 5:19, or Romans 3:19, the world of sinful men; it is a world on a grander scale. … The reconciliation of sinful men is represented as though it were only a part of this vaster work. (p. 195).

The Cross is the basis of a universal religion, and has in it the hope of a universal peace. (p. 201).

“...that in the death of Christ God has dealt effectually with the world’s sin for its removal.”  (p. 217). 

“...‘through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.’” (p. 231).   

“...but its redemptive value, i.e. its value for us, belongs to it not simply as obedience, but as obedience to a will of God which requires the Redeemer to take upon Himself in death the responsibility of the sin of the world.” (p. 234). 

“It is one thing when we conceive of it as an imperative will, having relation only to man as God’s creature; it is another when we conceive it as a redeeming, restorative, gracious will, of which the human race is in reality the object, not the subject, the subject by whom the will is carried out being Christ. (p. 234). 

“...in Jesus Christ and Him crucified is the whole hope of a sinful world.” (p. ???).
Hence the blood of Christ both does something once for all — in breaking the bond which sin holds us by, and bringing us into such a relation to God that we are a people of priests — and does something progressively, in assuring our gradual assimilation to Jesus Christ the faithful witness.” (p. ???).

It is a death which once for all has achieved something — the aorists λσαντι (1:5), σφγης κα γρασας ν τ αματι (5:9), prove this. There is a finished work in it.” (p.??).

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