Does this mean that Jesus became his own Enemy? It would seem so.78 Just as his own human body turned against him on the cross, smothering and killing him, so his human nature absorbed the curse of the Law, the sentence that deals death to the human being (Rom. 7:11).79 By making himself “to be sin,” he allied himself with us in our farthest extremity, perfectly described in Ephesians: “Remember that you were at that time . . . alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world” (Eph. 2:12). Thus he entered into our
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