Origen of Alexandria (185-232) “For at the end of the age, in the most recent times, God has manifested his righteousness and given Christ to be our redemption. He has made him our propitiator. If he had sent him as the propitiator at some earlier time, there would have been fewer people whose sins needed […]
Atonement
Cyril on Atonement
Cyril of Jerusalem (ca. 313 – 386) “We were enemies of God by means of Sin; and God ordained that the sinner should die. Of two things, then, one must needs have happened; either that God should adhere to His word, and destroy all men, or that by giving scope to His benignity He should […]
Orthodox Substitutionary Atonement
For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures… (1 Cor. 15:3-4) No statement is more central to the Christian faith than what Paul […]
Cyril of Alexandria on Substitutionary Atonement
Cyril of Alexandria (c. 376 – 444) – Patriarch of Alexandria For that there is no obedience without reward, and on the other hand, no disobedience without penalty, is made plain by what God spoke by His holy prophet to those who disregarded Him: “Behold, they who serve Me shall eat, but you shall suffer […]