Emmanuel Boston’s Reviews > Church Dogmatics: II.2 The Doctrine of the Word of God §§ 32–33 > Status Update

He willed to make good this affronting and disturbing of His majesty, this devastating of His work, not by avenging Himself on its author, but by Himself bearing the inevitable wrath and perdition,... who had necessarily fallen victim to damnation and death, by allowing His own heart to be wounded by the wrath which, if it had fallen upon man, could only have obliterated and destroyed him. God's eternal decree...