THE DIVINE SELF-SACRIFICE OF THE CROSS

'...the crucifixion reveals God placing himself under his own sentence. The wrath of God has lodged in God's own self.' 

Fleming Rutledge, The Crucifixion, p.132. 

THE CROSS

'...God himself is at the heart of our answer to all three questions about the divine propitiation. It is God himself who in holy wrath needs to be propitiated, God himself in holy love undertook to do the propitiating, and God himself who in the peson of his Son died for the propitiation of our sins. Thus God took his own loving iniative to appease his righteous anger by bearing it his own self in his own Son when he took our place and died for us. There is no crudity here to evoke our ridicule, only the profundity of holy love to evoke our worship.'

John Sott, The Cross of Christ, p.204.