# “O the sweet exchange” by Anonymous

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- Published: 2008-08-04T19:11:25-05:00
- Author: tollelege

“[God] gave up his own Son as a ransom for us, the holy one for the lawless, the
guiltless for the guilty, ‘the just for the unjust’, the incorruptible for the corruptible,
the immortal for the mortal.

For what else but his righteousness could have covered our sins?  In whom was it
possible for us, the lawless and ungodly, to be justified, except in the Son of 
God alone?

O the sweet exchange, O the incomprehensible work of God, O the unexpected blessings,
that the sinfulness of many should be hidden in one righteous man, while the righteousness
of one should justify many sinners!”

_—_Anonymous, “The Epistle to Diognetus” in _The Apostolic Fathers_, ed. Michael
W. Holmes (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 1992), 547.

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