The sacrifice of the cross is the explanation of the enormity of sin, and the measure of the love of the redeeming Trinity. It is only ignorance that says God loves because Christ died. Christ died because God loves. Propitiation does not awaken love. Love provides expiation. To cancel the curse, to lift the ban, to inoculate the antitoxin of grace, to regain life, to purchase pardon, to ransom the enslaved, to defeat Satan’s work; in one word, to reconcile and restore a lost race; for this, Jesus Christ, the Son of God, and Son of Man, came into this world and offered up His Divine Human Person, Body and Soul.

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