The Remission of Sins
Therefore, by
remitting sins, He did indeed heal man, while He also manifested Himself who He
was. For if no one can forgive sins but God alone, while the Lord remitted them
and healed men, it is plain that He was Himself the Word of God made the Son of
man, receiving from the Father the power of remission of sins; since He was
man, and since He was God, in order that since as man He suffered for us, so as
God He might have compassion on us, and forgive us our debts, in which we were
made debtors to God our Creator. And therefore David said beforehand, Blessed
are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered. Blessed is
the man to whom the Lord has not imputed sin; pointing out thus that remission
of sins which follows upon His advent, by which He has destroyed the
handwriting of our debt, and fastened it to the cross; Colossians 2:14 so that
as by means of a tree we were made debtors to God, [so also] by means of a tree
we may obtain the remission of our debt.
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