Author: Dr. George M. Bassaly, M.D.
Language: English
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Q9: Did the Lord, through His death, satisfy the debt of the human race?
9. The Word, since death alone could stay (stop, eliminate) the plague, took a mortal body which, united with Him, should avail for all, and by partaking of His immortality stay the corruption of the Race. By being above all, He made His Flesh an offering for our souls; by being one with us all, he (He) clothed us with immortality. Simile to illustrate this.
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For the Word, perceiving that no otherwise could the corruption of men be undone (eliminated) save by (except, other than) death as a necessary condition, while it was impossible for the Word to suffer death, being immortal, and Son of the Father; to this end He takes to Himself a body capable of death, that it, by partaking of the Word Who is above all, might be worthy to die in the stead of all, and might, because of the Word which had come to dwell in it, remain incorruptible, and that thenceforth corruption might be stayed from all by the Grace of the Resurrection (might become in dying a sufficient exchange for all, and, itself remaining incorruptible through His indwelling, might thereafter put an end to corruption for all others as well, by the grace of the resurrection).
Whence (from which, from where), by offering unto death the body He Himself had taken, as an offering and sacrifice free from any stain, straightway He put away death from all His peers by the offering of an equivalent (similar body).
2. For being over all, the Word of God naturally by offering His own temple and corporeal instrument for the life of all satisfied the debt by His death (He fulfilled in death all that was required). And thus He, the incorruptible Son of God, being conjoined (united) with all by a like nature, naturally clothed all with incorruption, by the promise of the resurrection.
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