Tuesday, August 23

The full weight of God’s righteous wrath

God, because in his mercy he willed to forgive sinful men, and being truly merciful, willed to forgive them righteously, that is, without in any way condoning their sin, purposed to direct against his own very Self in the person of his Son the full weight of that righteous wrath which they deserved.

— Charles Cranfield, quoted by John Stott in
The Message of Romans
(Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 1994), 115-116