\u201cThe Scourging of Christ\u201d (Titian, d. 1576)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI am wholly deserving of all the consequences that I will in fact never receive simply because God unashamedly stepped in front of me on the cross, unflinchingly spread His arms so as to completely shield me from the retribution that was mine to bear, and repeatedly took the blows. And I stand entirely unwounded, utterly lost in the fact that while His body was pummeled and bloodied to death by that which was meant for me and me alone, I have not a scratch.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nCraig D. Lounsbrough<\/p>\n
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