This appears to be the immediate and primary meaning of these verses;
but the inner sense is Christ Jesus, the reconciling Word. In him, the
attributes of God unite in the salvation of guilty people. God is as true as if
he had fulfilled every letter of his threatenings, as righteous as if he had
never spoken peace to a sinner’s conscience. It is the custom of modern
thinkers to make sport of this representation of the result of our Lord’s
substitutionary atonement, but had they ever been themselves made to feel the
weight of a sin upon a spiritually awakened conscience, they would cease from
their vain ridicule.
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