And so, the Mediator, the Son of God, took upon His shoulders not only that first defection but also all our other defections and transgressions, and at the same time diverted to Himself the wrath of God the Father justly pursuing our sins. He also, by His passion and cross, fully and perfectly satisfied for us. And by His passion He not only satisfied fatherly wrath and righteousness, but in addition by that same passion (which was the dignity of that person who suffered, namely the Son of God in human nature), by that same passion, I say, He merited for us new grace, but especially the recalling of the covenant of God, without which first in the beginning no grace comes to us from God. For not unless we have first been called are we justified or glorified. Calling, moreover, is seen in cutting the new covenant with us. This covenant is what we call the covenant of grace.
Robert Rollock | Commentary on Ephesians, trans. Casey Carmichael, Classic Reformed Theology Series vol. 5 (Reformation Heritage Books, 2021), 166.
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Casey Carmichael
Casey Carmichael holds a doctorate in theology from the University of Geneva. He is the author of A Continental View: Johannes Cocceius’s Federal Theology of the Sabbath (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2019). He is also the coeditor of the Classic Reformed Theology series, published by Reformation Heritage Books. He has translated various works from the Reformed tradition, including J. H. Heidegger’s Concise Marrow of Christian Theology and John Calvin’s Necessity of Reforming the Church.
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