“Our Lord Jesus Christ did not die merely as a martyr, or as a splendid example of self-sacrifice and self-denial. Those who can see no more than that in His death, fall infinitely short of the truth. They lose sight of the very foundation-stone of Christianity, […]
Jesus Christ did feel and suffer the wrath of God which was due unto us for our sins.
Christ, though guiltless, took our punishment, that He might cancel our guilt, and do away with our punishment.
Christ so took and bare our sins, and had them so laid upon him, as that he underwent the punishment due unto them, and that in our stead: therefore, he made satisfaction to the justice of God for them. John Owen