The Marvel of the Cross
“…How amazing that God in Christ should do all this; that the Most High, the Most Holy should be the All Loving too; that the ineffable Majesty should stoop to take upon himself our flesh, subject to hunger and cold, death and desperation. We see him lying in the feedbox of a donkey, laboring in a carpenter’s shop, dying a derelict under the sins of the world. The gospel is not so much a miracle as a marvel, and every line is suffused with wonder.”
—Roland Bainton, Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther (Plume 1995), 63.
Posted on August 18, 2009, in Cross of Christ. Bookmark the permalink. 3 Comments.
Are those Bainton’s own words, or is he quoting Luther?
Those are Bainton’s words.
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