me’ (Ps. lxxxviii. 7). For He bore the indignation which lay upon us, as also He says in the hundred and thirty-seventh [sic]: ‘Lord, Thou shalt do vengeance for me’ (Ps. cxxxviii. 8, LXX.).37 Beyond merely mentioning the substitutionary sacrifice of Christ, Athanasius, in at least one place, refers to the wrath-bearing substitutionary sacrifice as the “especial cause” of the incarnation to rescue us from sin. Since it was necessary also that the debt owing from all should be paid again: for, as I have