theological writers. The strict sense of the word conveys the idea of guilt. When used in reference to Christ, that idea must attach wholly to the sinner; in whose stead Christ was placed. It must therefore be understood as meaning sufferings, which, if borne by the sinner himself would have been punishment. It was a judicial infliction on one who “offered himself without spot to God,” to suffer instead of the transgressors.* Nor did Christ die “conditionally for all men,” so that those, and only