Sunday, July 26, 2009

This tension between God's electing love and his holy justice is resolved at the cross: there one who embodied faithful Israel - one who had himself been all that God had intended for Israel to be, God's chosen one, his own Son - bears the penalty of divine judgment for sin.
-- Tremper Longman III and Raymond B. Dillard, An Introduction to the Old Testament, 2nd ed, 165.

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