What happened to him happened to all of us. He took part in our life and in our dying, and thus we came to take part in his life and his dying. If God’s righteousness required Christ’s death as its proof, then we are with Christ at the place where God’s righteousness dwells, at his cross, for he bore our flesh. As those who have been killed, we thus come to take part in God’s own righteousness in Jesus’ death.
