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respect of the sufferings he underwent in the service of mankind . Thus 5 for instance , in the very chapter where the text occurs , we find the following passage : cf he died for all , that they who live , should not henceforth live unto themselves , but unto him" To live not unto themselves but unto Christ .
, cannot have any other meaning than to cease from sin , to become righteous , and to continue in the practice of all righteousness . That we might live to Christ , and that we might
become the righteousness of God , are one and the same thing ; if then in the text just quoted we should substitute the latter instead of the former phrase , we shall make no alteration in the apostle ' s sense ^ c < he died for all , that they might become the righteousness of God ; but , " for this end , the apostle in our Ci
text has told us , he was made sin ; " whence it follows , by a very just and obvious deduction , that to be made sin , and to be put to a violent and cruel death , are nearly equivalent in their meaning ; or at least that the one is comprehended in the other . Tq have died , may not exhaust the whole import of having heen made sin ; but the comparison of these two passages cannot fail to lead us to the true interpretation of this phrase : to have been put to death is at least a part of its meaning , and if to this last horrid outrage we add all the antecedent wrongs and sufferings of Christ , we shall then give it its full weight and iiBport *
In like manner we might reason concerning a passage in St . Peter ( 2 Pet . iii . 18 ) , which seems in some respects to approach nearer to our text , * Christ has once suffered for sin , the just for the unjust , that he might bring us to God . " To bring us , to God , and that we might become the righteousness of God , are
evidently equivalent phrases . That we might become the righteousness of God then is declared to be the end and object of the sufferings of Christ ; it is declared also to be the end and object of his being made . sin ; if then we do not understand how it was that Jesus was made sin , this , passage will inform us that it was in his sufferings . Manv other passages of the like
nature might be added , but it is not necessary to dwell on arguments of this kind , for the very phrase itself , of being made sin , "" occurs frequently in the original of the Old Testament , and in such connexions as most indubitably ascertain its meaning , [ To bt continued ^
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30 Christs being fnade Sift .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1806, page 30, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1720/page/30/
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