Matthew 27:46 And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God… I venture to lay down this as a fundamental principle — an axiom, it may almost be called — that God never forsakes any one but for one cause, and that cause, sin. He must have seen sin in Christ, or on Him. He must have seen real or imputed sin to warrant His acting towards Him as He did. There is no way of accounting for the sufferings of the Son of God — from His incarnation to His death, from the manger to the grave, from His cradle to His cross — but on the supposition of His being, in the eye of justice and the law, a sinner, the sin-bearer, the sinner's substitute. Except on the grand principle of an atonement, all this is unaccountable. (A. L. R. Foote.) Parallel Verses KJV: And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? |
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