Those who make them will be like them, and so will all who trust in them. (Ps. 115:8) And in the New Testament, if by the Spirit we contemplate (katoptrizō, ‘looking at as in a mirror’) Christ we shall be transformed into his likeness from one degree of glory to the next (2 Cor. 3:18).7 In his argument for the necessity for atonement, Anselm famously says to Boso, ‘You have not yet considered what a heavy weight sin is.’8 To which may be added, ‘You have not yet considered who God is as scripturally
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