The Epistles of Peter on the Death of Christ (2)

We have now exhausted those passages in the epistles in which Peter reveals his conception of the death of Christ. From a study of these portions it becomes evident that to Peter, Christ did not suffer and die as a mere man. From the benefits which those receive who are willing to be covered by the blood of Christ, it is very evident that to Peter Christ in suffer­ing and in dying was paying the penalty of our sin, which consisted in spiritual, ethical death (not that Christ Himself died...