our account. And in the final statement, similarly, Christ’s bearing of our sins means that we do not bear them. We can also consider the rather more prosaic statements of Letham and Barth: Christ himself willingly submitted to the just penalty which we deserved, receiving it on our behalf and in our place so that we will not have to bear it ourselves.7 In his doing this for us, in his taking to himself—to fulfil all righteousness—our accusation and condemnation and punishment, in his suffering in