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penalties. The penalty pronounced against sin was death.
"Sin is the transgression of the law." 1 John 3:4. "The
soul that sinneth, it shall die." Eze. 18:20. Such was the
unalterable fiat that went forth against disobedience to
God's just and holy law. The sentence commends itself to
the sense of justice, common to every unbiased heart. With
reference to one who would take the sweet gift of life
which he had done nothing to merit, and prostitute it and
all its privileges to the base and unnatural work of hurling
defiance into the very face of the giver, and making
war on his will and all his ways, God could certainly do no
less than to consider such a life forfeited, and withdraw
the precious boon. So the sentence of the Old Testament,
"The soul that sinneth, it shall die," is echoed in the
New: "The wages of sin is death." Rom. 6:23. p. 19, Para.
1, [LOOKING].
It is life, then, which the law demands of every transgressor.
But what has this to do with the declaration that
"without shedding of blood is no remission"? The book of
Leviticus explains. The blood is the life. In Lev. 17:14,
we read: "For it [the blood] is the life of all flesh; the
blood of it is for the life thereof: therefore I said unto
the children of Israel, Ye shall eat the blood of no manner
of flesh; for the life of all flesh is the blood thereof."
In verse 11 we further read: "For the life of the flesh is
in the blood; and I have given it to you upon the altar to
make an atonement for your souls; for it is the blood that
maketh an atonement for the soul." The presentation of
blood, therefore, was the evidence that life had been
taken, to meet the demands of the law, and that thus its
claim that "the soul that sinneth [transgresseth the law],
it shall die," had been satisfied. But if the sinner were
left to meet this demand himself, if the blood that made
remission were his own blood, where would be his life? His
sin indeed would be remitted, or destroyed, but it would
involve him in the same destruction; he must perish with
his transgression. p. 19, Para. 2, [LOOKING].
When man had thus brought himself into this helpless and
hopeless condition by disobedience to the command not to
eat of the forbidden tree (a prohibition which involved
every principle of God's law), it was then that the Saviour
interposed in his behalf. Christ alone, as being above law,
was available for this work. Every created being was subject
to law, and therefore could meet its demands only on
his own behalf. The law demands perfect obedience, and no