Those who refuse to give explanations like
to have their cake and also eat it. On the
hand, they like to reduce salvation to God’s
sovereignty and equate election with
justification ( and don’t talk about
justification or Christ obtaining
righteousness by being imputed with guilt).
But on the other hand, when it comes to
explaining the non-salvation of the non-
elect, these same preachers don’t want to
talk about God’s so

Thus the Lamb of God appeared without
inherent sin or taint of any kind, but never
without the sin of others. The sin of man
was not first imputed to Him or borne by Him
when He hung on the cross, but in and with
the assumption of man's nature, or, more
precisely, in and with His mission. The very
form of a servant, and His putting on the
likeness of sinful flesh, was an argument
that sin was already transferred to Him and
borne by Him; and not a single moment of the
Lord's earthly life can be conceived of in
which He did not feel the harden of the
divine wrath which must otherwise have
pressed on us for ever. Hence, "to hear sin"
is the phrase of God's word for freeing us
from its punishment.
Because He bore sin, and was never seen
without it, it may be affirmed that the
mortality which was comprehended in the
words, "Thou shalt surely die"—that is, all
that was summed up in the wrath and curse of
God,—was never really separated from Him,
though it had its hours of culmination and
its abatements. Hence, without referring
further at present to the character of the
suffering, it evidently appears that, as the
sin-bearer, He all through life discerned
and felt the penal character of sin as the
surety