Theodorus VanderGroe on the need for the mediator to be very God

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According to the instructor [the Heidelberg Catechism], it is this chastisement and wrath of God that this mediator and deliverer must bear in His humanity and on our behalf; that is, in His human soul and body. As we have seen, it is in the human nature that payment for sin must be made, for it is the human nature that has sinned. However, how would the mediator be capable of bearing God’s wrath on our behalf if He were merely a man? He would then be no more than a finite creature and would possess nothing more than finite strength and capabilities. God’s wrath, however, is a burden of infinite proportion, of which we must exclaim with Moses, “Who knoweth the power of thine anger?” (Ps. 90:11). Regarding this, the instructor taught us in Question 14 that no one “who is a mere creature, [is] able to satisfy for us…[because] no mere creature can sustain the burden of God’s eternal wrath against sin, so as to deliver others from it. ...

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