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How real was the death of Jesus! It was no ordinary death. Elihu, in speaking to Job says, “By the breath of God frost is given: and the breadth of the waters is straightened”, Job 37: 10. The death of Jesus stands alone; He was straitened in it; it was the Prince of life who lay there. “Sorrows of death”, we read, “compassed me, and the pains of hell (Sheol) gat hold upon me”; He was straitened. Such is the figure the Spirit of God employs to convey to us what Jesus endured in order that the blessing of God might come to man. He “gave himself, we are told, “a ransom for all”, 1 Timothy 2: 6. He gave Himself unto death; not death of the ordinary kind, but death involving the bearing of judgment. The blast of God was there; by the breath of God the frost comes, it says, and the waters are frozen. The north wind of divine wrath beat upon Him and the waters of death were, as it were, straitened, and there He was— and why? That I should never come into it.

J. Taylor (Vol. 89, p.447)

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