(Luke 23:28). The facts and sayings are so connected, that had they stood alone neither could have been understood. The narrative would have been an insoluble enigma without the commentary. The historic incidents of the Lord’s suffering life supply what may be termed the realism of the atonement, or the exhibition of it in concrete personal form. The rounded doctrine is given in the apostolic Epistles, where the veil is, so to speak, lifted up, and where we see the divine thoughts or the redemption
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