hand, if the glory of the victim creates a paradox which demands resolution, the magnificence of what the cross achieved is itself an element to be fed back into our understanding of the Person. That the death should have such unique significance surely points to something startling in him whose death it is. He is not just a man, but the Man: even the Last Man. The mystery of his Person lies beneath the mystery of the atonement. It is as himself that he is the propitiation (1 John 2:2). Fourthly,