Was it necessary that Christ should suffer the particular death that He actually suffered?
Yes; for it was according to the wisdom of the divine counsels and of His love for us that He suffered such a death. By His death we were delivered from the spiritual death of sin and from the death which is inflicted on us as a penalty of sin. In dying for us our Lord conquered death, and He made it possible. for us to triumph over death by not fearing it, knowing that we shall come to life again (L. 1).
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