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36. What benefit do you receive from the holy conception and birth of Christ? 37. What do you understand by the word “suffered?” 38. Why did He suffer “under Pontius Pilate” as judge? 39. Is there anything more in His having been “crucified” than if He had suffered some other death?
That He is our Mediator,1 and with His innocence and perfect holiness covers, in the sight of God, my sin, wherein I was conceived.2
1Heb. 2:16-17; 2Ps. 32:1; *I Jn. 1:9
That all the time He lived on earth, but especially at the end of His life, He bore, in body and soul, the wrath of God against the sin of the whole human race;1 in order that by His suffering, as the only atoning sacrifice,2 He might redeem our body and soul from everlasting damnation, and obtain for us the grace of God, righteousness, and eternal life.
1I Pet. 2:24; Isa. 53:12; 2I Jn. 2:2; 4:10; Rom. 3:25-26; *Ps. 22:14-16; *Mt. 26:38; *Rom. 5:6
That He, being innocent, might be condemned by the temporal judge,1 and thereby deliver us from the severe judgment of God, to which we were exposed.2
1Acts 4:27-28; Lk. 23:13-15; Jn. 19:4; 2Ps. 69:4; II Cor. 5:21; *Mt. 27:24
Yes, for thereby I am assured that He took upon Himself the curse which lay upon me,1 because the death of the cross was accursed of God.2
1Gal. 3:13-14; 2Deut. 21:22-23; *Phil. 2:8
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