This intercessory act at this supreme moment marked Him as the One Sacrifice and the One Intercessor between God and man. As such He is now seated at the Father’s right hand. There you recognise in Him a love which passed through an ordeal which no creature could have stood. I think you now in some measure understand what it means to receive pardon in the name of Jesus Christ. He made this pardon a holy and righteous gift. He obtained it for us in a holy and righteous manner. Coming to us through Him, it is stamped with God’s righteousness as much as with God’s mercy. It is thoroughly worthy of God, tunes our heart to the right worship of Him, fills us with both love and awe towards Him and Christ.
Nicolaas Jacobus Hofmeyr — N. J. Hofmeyr, The Blessed Life: How to Find and Live It (New York and Chicago: Fleming H. Revell Company, author’s edition; undated, catalog date 1890), “On Returning to the Father,” ch. “Divine Pardon,” pp. 31–32
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