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NASB | 2 Corinthians 5:21 He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 2 Corinthians 5:21 He made Christ who knew no sin to [judicially] be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we would become the righteousness of God [that is, we would be made acceptable to Him and placed in a right relationship with Him by His gracious lovingkindness]. |
Bible Question: Did Jesus die spiritually? What happened between the cross and His resurrection? |
Bible Answer: Wheatfields, You may find these sections from the Catechism of interest on the subject. " 624. "'By the grace of God' Jesus tasted death 'for every one'.[Heb 2:9 .] In his plan of salvation, God ordained that his Son should not only 'die for our sins'[1 Cor 15:3 .] but should also 'taste death', experience the condition of death, the separation of his SOUL from his body, between the time he expired on the cross and the time he was raised from the dead. The state of the dead Christ is the mystery of the tomb and the descent into hell. It is the mystery of Holy Saturday, when Christ, lying in the tomb,[Cf. Jn 19:42 .] reveals God's great sabbath rest[Cf. Heb 4:7-9 .] after the fulfilment[Cf. Jn 19:30 .] of man's salvation, which brings peace to the whole universe.[Cf Col 1: 18-20 .]" 625. "Christ's stay in the tomb constitutes the real link between his passible state before Easter and his glorious and risen state today. The same person of the 'Living One' can say, 'I died, and behold I am alive for evermore':[Rev 1:18.] God (the Son) did not impede death from separating his SOUL from his body according to the necessary order of nature, but has reunited them to one another in the Resurrection, so that he himself might be, in his person, the meeting point for death and life, by arresting in himself the decomposition of nature produced by death and so becoming the source of reunion for the separated parts.[St. Gregory of Nyssa, Orat. catech. 16: PG 45, 52D.]" 626. "Since the 'Author of life' who was killed[Acts 3:15 .] is the same 'living one (who has) risen',[Lk 24:5-6 .] the divine person of the Son of God necessarily continued to possess his human SOUL and body, separated from each other by death: By the fact that at Chnst's death his SOUL was separated from his flesh, his one person is not itself divided into two persons; for the human body and SOUL of Christ have existed in the same way from the beginning of his earthly existence, in the divine person of the Word; and in death, although separated from each other, both remained with one and the same person of the Word.[St. John Damascene, De fide orth. 3, 27: PG 94, 1097.]" 627. "Christ's death was a real death in that it put an end to his earthly human existence. But because of the union his body retained with the person of the Son, his was not a mortal corpse like others, for 'divine power preserved Christ's body from corruption.'[St. Thomas Aquinas, STh III, 51, 3.] Both of these statements can be said of Christ: 'He was cut off out of the land of the living',[Is 53:8 .] and 'My flesh will dwell in hope. For you will not abandon my SOUL to Hades, nor let your Holy One see corruption.'[Acts 2:26-27 ; cf. Ps 16:9-10 .] Jesus' Resurrection 'on the third day' was the proof of this, for bodily decay was held to begin on the fourth day after death.[Cf. 1 Cor 15:4 ; Lk 24:46 ; Mt 12:40 ; Jon 2:1 ; Hos 6:2 ; cf. Jn 11:39 .]" 630. "During Christ's period in the tomb, his divine person continued to assume both his SOUL and his body, although they were separated from each other by death. For this reason the dead Christ's body 'saw no corruption' (Acts 13:37)." 632. "The frequent New Testament affirmations that Jesus was 'raised from the dead' presuppose that the crucified one sojourned in the realm of the dead prior to his resurrection.[Acts 3:15 ; Rom 8:11 ; 1 Cor 15:20 ; cf. Heb 13:20 .]This was the first meaning given in the apostolic preaching to Christ's descent into hell: that Jesus, like all men, experienced death and in his SOUL joined the others in the realm of the dead. But he descended there as Saviour, proclaiming the Good News to the spirits imprisoned there.[Cf. 1 Pet 3:18-19.]" 637. "In his human SOUL united to his divine person, the dead Christ went down to the realm of the dead. He opened heaven's gates for the just who had gone before him. " 650. "The Fathers contemplate the Resurrection from the perspective of the divine person of Christ who remained united to his SOUL and body, even when these were separated from each other by death: 'By the unity of the divine nature, which remains present in each of the two components of man, these are reunited. For as death is produced by the separation of the human components, so Resurrection is achieved by the union of the two.'[St. Gregory of Nyssa, In Christi res. Orat. I: PG 46, 617B; cf. also DS 325; 359; 369.]" |