ALPHA MAAMA (A.M.)

Tokonaki Tisema 16, 2017

Totongi ‘osi hotau mo‘ua ki he angahala!

( Jesus satisfied the debt )

Fehu‘i #22

Ko e ha e ‘uhinga ‘oku pau ai ke hoko hotau Huhu‘í  ko ha tangata mo‘oní ?

( Why must the Redeemer be truly human?)

Koe‘uhí, ke ne fakakakato ma‘a kitautolu, ‘i hotau tu‘unga tangatá ‘a e talangofua haohaoa ki he laó pea ke ne fua ‘a e tautea ‘o e angahala ‘a e tangatá, pea ke ne kaungā ongo‘i hotau tu‘unga vaivaí.

(That in human nature he might on our behalf perfectly obey the

whole law and suffer the punishment for human sin, and also that he

might sympathize with our weaknesses)

Hepelu 2:7

Ko ia ai, na‘e pau ke fakatatau ai ia mo hono ngaahi tokoua ‘i he me‘a kotoa pē, koe‘uhi ke ne hoko ko ha Taula‘eiki Lahi ‘oku ‘ofangofua mo lototō, ke ne tokanga ki he‘enau ngaahi me‘a mo e ‘Otua, koe‘uhi ke ne fai ‘a e fakalelei ‘i he angahala ‘a e kakai.

HEBREWS 2:17

Therefore he had to be made like his brothers in every respect, so that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in the service of God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people.

Commentary - ATHANASIUS OF ALEXANDRIA (cont…)

Whence, by offering unto death the body He Himself had taken, as an offering and sacrifice free from any stain, straightway He put away death from all His peers by the offering of an equivalent. For being over all, the Word of God naturally by offering His own temple and corporeal instrument for the life of all satisfied the debt by His death. And thus He, the  incorruptible Son of God, being conjoined with all by a like nature, naturally clothed all with incorruption, by the promise of the resurrection.