Christ's whole life was a reconciling qurban: an approach to the Father, and a real indwelling of God's glory in the temple of Christ's body, and an atonement made for a people enslaved to death; in pouring himself out in the form of a servant, and in living his humanity as an offering up of everything to God in love, the shape of the eternal Son's life was already sacrificial in this special sense; and it was this absolute giving, as God and man, that was made complete on Golgotha.
