The atoning sacrifice offered in the life and death of Christ is here acknowledged and affirmed by God; the act of the Son is manifested to be the act of God himself. In Pauline language, Christ was raised for our justification. Satisfaction is not the divine satisfaction in death, as compensation for violated law, nor only the satisfaction in the fulfilment of divine righteousness, but satisfaction of the Father in the Son who has fulfilled the Father's good pleasure in making righteous atonement.
