them, surrenders himself in this darkness into the hands—which he can now no longer feel—of the Father who sends him, the Father who, in doing so, surrenders himself. In biblical terms his undergirding death is interpreted in two ways, though both aspects are inseparable from one another. On the one hand, this death takes the place of all sinful deaths; it involves self-surrender to God-forsakenness and powerlessness, thereby undergirding every possible instance of God-forsakenness and powerlessness