Reformed Covenanter
Cancelled Commissioner
How should we understand that Christ became a curse? The answer is that the Son of God not only felt the wounding of his members in his human nature, soul and body, but all that wrath of God and the curse that we would have felt if he had not taken our punishment on himself. Christ felt the curse not in theory but in fact so that we might be delivered from it, not in theory but in fact. And he took our curse to such an extent that not a single sin out of the sins of all the elect went unpunished. The reason for this is that every sin, even the smallest of them, deserved to be cursed. Christ did not satisfy [the demands of the law] imperfectly but perfectly, which is why he took on the curse of every single sin of ours. …
For more, see Caspar Olevianus on Christ becoming a curse for us.
For more, see Caspar Olevianus on Christ becoming a curse for us.
