Part 18 of 31 from "Christ our Righteousness".
By Carl Oluf Rosenius.
(1816-1868)
Translated from ekris.net
“And the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.” (Isaiah 53:6)
In this way the holy God has given us his words. They are distinct enough, clear as the sun, unshakable as the mountain. How can we do anything but take them literally as they are. God doesn’t want us to add anything nor to take away anything. What then do these words tell us?
They say that all sin in the world, the sin of everybody – of the ungodly, of the not converted and of the unbeliever, have once for all been thrown on Christ. They are imputed to him, put down to his account, paid and wiped out by him. But have they once been laid on Christ, then they no longer lie on the sinner. Because, if we take a thing from one place and put it in another, then that thing isn’t in the first place any longer. If a debt is written to the account of one, and transferred to the account of another person, then it’s no longer written on the account of the first person. That is clear.
We have, then, biblical basis for the words of Luther in the explanation of the Second Article, where he says that Jesus Christ with his holy blood, has redeemed me, a lost and damned person, - and ransomed me from all sins, from the power of the death and the devil.
It doesn’t say that he will do it, but that he has done it!
Translation Gert Gravgaard
