tion to the English preposition, for. Whether the phrase, to die for any one^ means to die for his benefit, or in his place, is determined by the connection. It may mean either or both ; and the same is true of the corresponding scriptural phrase.
According to the Scriptures, i. e. the fact that the Messiah was to die as a propitiation for sin had been revealed in the Old Testament. That the death of Christ as an atoning sacri- fice was predicted by the law and the prophets is the constant doctrine of the New Testament. Our Lord reproved his dis- ciples for not believing what the prophets had spoken on this subject, Luke 24, 25. 26. Paul protested before Festus, that in preaching the gospel he had said " none other things than those which Moses and the prophets say should come ; that Christ should suffer, and that he should be the first that should rise from the dead, and should show light unto the people, and to the Gentiles," Acts 26, 22. 23. He assured the Romans that his gospel was "witnessed (to) by the law and the prophets," Rom. 3. 21. The epistle to the Hebrews is an ex- position of the whole Mosaic service as a prefiguration of the office and work of Christ. And the fifty-third chapter of Isaiah is the foundation of all the New Testament exhibitions of a suffering and atoning Messiah. Paul and all other faith- ful ministers of the gospel, therefore, teach that atonement for sin, by the death of Christ, is the great doctrine of the whole word of God.
4. And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the Scriptures :
There are two things taught in this, as in the preceding verse. First, the truth of the facts referred to ; and secondly, that those facts had been predicted. It is true that Christ was buried, and that he rose again on the third day. These facts were included in the revelation made to Paul, and the truth of which he proceeds to confirm by abundant additional testimony. That these facts were predicted in the Old Testa- ment, is taught in John 20, 9. Acts 26, 23. The passage espe- cially urged by the apostles as foretelling the resurrection of Christ, is Ps. 16, 10. Peter proves that that Psalm cannot be understood of David, because his body was allowed to see cor- ruption. It must, he says, be understood of Christ, who was raised from the dead, and "saw no corruption," Acts 13, 34- 37. The prophetic Scriptures, however, are full of this doo
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