We have reached in this study of the Cross the position in which Christ is seen as an innocent substitute enduring the wrath due to human sin. By no other view can the death of Jesus be satisfactorily explained, as in no other light can it be reconciled with the interests of good government. If there were no Divine elements in the suffering endured, as some would have us to suppose, then it is hard to see how Jesus Christ was not the most faint-hearted of martyrs; while if He were not the representative and substitute for sinners, it is impossible to vindicate the permission of such a sacrifice. In other words, the doctrine that Jesus Christ was the solitary vicarious sacrifice for the sins of the whole world, exhausting in Himself man’s deserved doom, is the only doctrine that gives any just account of the history.

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