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From Dane Ortlund:
If Christ never sinned, can he really sympathize fully with me in all my temptations?
Nineteenth-century NT scholar B. F Westcott, commenting on Heb. 2:18, writes:
Nineteenth-century NT scholar B. F Westcott, commenting on Heb. 2:18, writes:
Sympathy with the sinner in his trial does not depend on the experience of sin but on the experience of the strength of the temptation to sin which only the sinless can know in its full intensity. He who falls yields before the last strain.--Brooke Foss Westcott, The Epistle to the Hebrews (1892), 59
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