Monday, April 7

Christus victor

Our redemption is a work at once of price and of power — of expiation and of conquest. On the cross was the purchase made, and on the cross was the victory gained. The blood which wipes out the sentence against us was there shed, and the death which was the death-blow of Satan’s kingdom was there endured.

— John Eadie, quoted by John Stott in
The Cross of Christ
(Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 1986), 230