In the prior ages, and under the law, the sacrifice for a sin-offering was simply called the sin; because all the sin to be atoned for by the sacrifice was considered as imputed to, and concentrated in it; and in this sense it is that God hath made Christ to be sin for us; not that he invested him with a sinful nature any more than the Lamb of Abel, or the Lamb of the daily Temple-service, was inoculated with the sin of Abel, or with the sin of Israel; but that God made a legal transfer of sin from the body of the Church to the head of the Church, and condemned the sin in his flesh, in order that thus he might be the Saviour of the body.

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