"Our redemption by the cross was likewise an expression of God's love and compassion rather than an appeasement of God's anger or a form of compensation for God's injured majesty." (from Ellsberg's summary of Scotus)
I have often preached that it is Love that we see hanging on the cross, arms spread to embrace the entire human race, thinking of others and caring for them. "Father, forgive them;" "Today you will be with me in paradise."
Com(with) passion(suffer) means that Jesus "suffers with" every human being who suffers in the Roman Colosseum or the Nazi death camps or on the United States border.
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