for his personal satisfaction but “gave his only-begotten Son.” “God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself” (1 Cor. 5:12). There are parallels between the ancient Near Eastern treaty and Anselm’s feudalism, but where Anselm appeals to the “tribute offering” that in both cases was brought by the vassal to the suzerain as a tax symbolic of subservience (“thank offering”), Christ’s offering of himself was an atonement, a “guilt offering.” It was not a payment to make God love us, but a payment