The Nature of the Atonement: Limited or General? (12)

SCRIPTURE AND SUBSTITUTION (continued) SCRIPTURE AND SUBSTITUTION (continued) Another of the numerous passages which point to the idea of substitution as conveyed by the preposition "in behalf of" (huper) is Romans 5:8, where, by the way, the love of God and the death of Christ are intimately connected. Here we read: "But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." The expression "for us" is more literally "in behalf of us." Now it is certainly...