Sublime

Charles Hodge

Fifth,

(And he is atonement for our sins, and not only for ours, but for the whole cosmos.)

The experiment with God cannot take place without man.

and he argued that Christian life and the faith can never be lived in the abstract.

There is, likewise, a “merely emotional” love of neighbor. Such love is capable of making the most unheard-of sacrifices. Often it far surpasses the genuine love of Christ in fervent devotion and visible results.

Christians should recognize the true image of the other person from the perspective of Christ himself, resisting all attempts to coerce and dominate others rather than loving them for who they are: as those for whom Christ became incarnate among his people and with whom Christ became bonded in their brotherly love.