Joseph Barber Lightfoot, D.D., D.C.L., LL.D., Lord Bishop of Durham, Cambridge Sermons (London and New York: Macmillan and Co., 1890), Sermon IX, "Bought with a Price," pp. 291–292

In the Cross of Christ righteousness was vindicated. At length sin appeared in all its heinousness. The greatness of the sacrifice was a mirror of the greatness of the sin. We are so constituted that we do not easily rea…