The Eternal Gospel

...see tangibly / how God himself has taken our sin from us / and placed it upon this scapegoat original: Versöhnbock; a reference to the Levitical "scapegoat" that carries away the sins of the people. This is a central image of Christ's atonement. / along with all its punishments / and punished them / never to remember them henceforth / Hebrews 8, Daniel 9. Thus all those / who turn to him through true repentance original: Busse; refers to a heart-felt turning away from sin toward God. / and believe this / stand again in Christ / in his person / in his place / under his righteousness / life and salvation original: Seeligkeit; the state of eternal happiness or blessedness in God's presence. / before God: and just as we see all our sins / and what we should have suffered for them temporally and eternally / lying upon him; so God has in turn placed all his righteousness and grace original: Gnade upon us / Isaiah 53. Christ is everything that we poor sinners are / for us out of love / and we, in turn, are everything that Christ is / through faith in him / 2 Corinthians 5. Our sin and death already became Christ's sin and death 1600 years ago: so that his righteousness and grace would in turn become ours. He is the evildoer / so that we should be the righteous ones. O, a blessed exchange! original: seeliger Wechsel; this is a famous theological concept popularized by Martin Luther, where Christ and the believer "swap" statuses: Christ takes the sinner's guilt, and the sinner takes Christ's holiness. To Christ / who was righteous in himself / our sins are imputed / as if he had committed them all from the beginning of the world until the end / so much so / that he even [became] the sin-