The Eternal Gospel

...clearly see / how God himself has taken our sin from us / and laid it upon this Scapegoat original: Versöhnbock; referring to the "scapegoat" of Leviticus 16, which symbolically carried away the sins of the people. / together with all its punishments / and punished them / henceforth never to remember them again / Hebrews 8, Daniel 9. Thus all / who through true repentance original: Busse; a heart-felt turning away from sin and toward God. turn to him / and believe this / stand again in Christ / in his person / in his place / under his righteousness original: Gerechtigkeit / life and salvation original: Seeligkeit; the state of eternal happiness or blessedness. / before God: and just as we see all our sin lying on him / and what we should have suffered for it temporally and eternally; so has God in return laid all his righteousness and grace upon us / Isaiah 53. Christ is everything that we poor sinners are / for our sake out of love / and we in return are everything that Christ is / through faith in him / 2 Corinthians 5. Our sin and death already 1600 years ago The author dates the crucifixion to roughly 1600 years before his time, suggesting this manuscript was written in the 17th century. became Christ's sin and death: so that his righteousness and grace might become ours in return. He is the evildoer original: Ubelthäter; a criminal or malefactor. / so that we should be the righteous ones. O a blessed exchange original: seeliger Wechsel; a core theological concept describing the trade of human sin for Christ's righteousness.! To Christ / who was righteous in himself / our sins are attributed / as if he had committed them all from the beginning of the world until the end / so much so / that he even [became] to sin- The text cuts off here, likely continuing to explain that Christ "became sin for us" (2 Corinthians 5:21).