The preternatural character of the death of Christ has been well termed the “undergirding of the Cross.” It was in view of that approaching death that God “justly passed over the sins done aforetime” (Rom. 3:25 RV). Had not Christ been, in the reckoning of God, the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world, every sinning person in Old Testament times would have gone down to the pit the moment he sinned! Fourth: the death of Christ was super-natural. By this we mean that it was different from every