To boast in the cross of Christ is to put all your confidence for life in God’s presence and the forgiveness of sin in the work of Jesus, rather than your own obedience/actions (for example, circumcision). / The cross represents the atoning death of Jesus that opens the way for justification apart from works of the law.[2] Through participation in Christ’s death, Paul has been set free from the law as the means of justification, and from the old life of which the law was the principle.[3]
[1] Schreiner, 2010: p 379.
[2] Fung, 1988: p 306.
[3] Fung, 1988: p 307.
To boast in the cross of Christ is to put all your confidence for life in God’s presence and the forgiveness of sin in the work of Jesus, rather than your own obedience/actions (for example, circumcision). 1 The cross represents the atoning death of Jesus that opens the way for justification apart from works of the law. 2 Through participation in Christ’s death, Paul has been set free from the law as the means of justification, and from the old life of which the law was the principle. 3
14 Pour ce qui me concerne, loin de moi la pensée de me glorifier d'autre chose que de la croix de notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ, par qui le monde est crucifié pour moi, comme je le suis pour le monde!