Galatians 3:13

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• #BC24 Who is the Redeemer of God’s elect? The only Redeemer of God’s elect is the Lord Jesus Christ; who, being the eternal Son of God, became man, and so was and continueth to be God and man in two distinct natures, and one person for ever.
• #BC30 Wherein did Christ’s humiliation consist? Christ’s humiliation consisted in his being born, and that in a low condition, made under the law, undergoing the miseries of this life, the wrath of God, and the cursed death of the cross; in being b...
• #HC37 What do you confess when you say that He suffered? During all the time He lived on earth, but especially at the end, Christ bore in body and soul the wrath of God against the sin of the whole human race. Thus, by His suffering, as the only atoning sac...
• #AOC37 For what cause should he suffer under Pilate, as being his Judg? That he being innocent and condemned before a civil Judg might deliver us from the severe Judgment of God which remained for all men.
• #HC38 Why did He suffer under Pontius Pilate as judge? Though innocent, Christ was condemned by an earthly judge, and so He freed us from the severe judgment of God that was to fall on us.
• #AOC38 But is there any more in it, that he was fastened to the Cross, than if he had suffered any other kind of death? There is more: for by this I am assured that he took upon himself the curse which did ly on me; for the death of the Cross was accursed of God.
• #HC39 Does it have a special meaning that Christ was crucified and did not die in a different way? Yes. Thereby I am assured that He took upon Himself the curse which lay on me, for a crucified one was cursed by God.
• #WLC49 How did Christ humble himself in his death? Christ humbled himself in his death, in that having been betrayed by Judas, forsaken by his disciples, scorned and rejected by the world, condemned by Pilate, and tormented by his persecutors; having...
• #GC60 Is there greater importance in His having been crucified than if He had been put death in another way? Yes, as Paul also shows us when he says that He hanged on a tree to take our curse upon Himself and acquit us of it (Gal 3:13). For that kind of death was accursed of God (Deu 21:23).