What Christ bore were "sins", even all sorts of sin, original and actual, and every act of sin of his people and all that is in sin, all that belongs to it, arises from it, and is the demerit of it, as both filth, guilt, and punishment and a multitude of sins did he bear, even all the iniquities of all the elect and a prodigious load and weight it was and than which nothing could be more nauseous and disagreeable to him, who loves righteousness, and hates iniquity: and these sins he bore were not his own, nor the sins of angels, but of men and not of all men, yet of many, even as many as were ordained to eternal life, for whom Christ gave his life a ransom, whom he justifies and brings to glory our sins, not the sins of the Jews only, for Peter was a Jew, and so were those to whom he writes, but of the Gentiles also, even the sins of all his people, for them he saves from their sins, being stricken for them. ![]() The apostle here explains the nature and end of Christ's sufferings, which were to make atonement for sins, and which was done by bearing them. ![]() As was typified by the high priest bearing the sins of the holy things of the people of Israel, when he went into the most holy place, and by the scape goat bearing the iniquities of all the people unto a land not inhabited, and as was foretold by the Prophet Isaiah.
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