“Indeed, Christ drank all the poison of death in order that we might not taste the wrath of God in our death . . . . This should encourage us to be obedient to God in our deaths, since Christ yielded His will to that of the Father for us, and drank and removed the wrath of God for us like a bitter potion.” [1]
“Thus our physical death is neither a payment for our sins nor an entrance into eternal death but a putting an end to our sinning and an entrance into eternal life.” [2]
[1] Caspar Olevianus, A Firm Foundation: An Aid to Interpreting the Heidelberg Catechism, trans. Lyle D. Bierma, Texts and Studies in Reformation and Post-Reformation Thought (Carlisle, United Kingdom; Grand Rapids, MI: Paternoster Press; Baker Books, 1995), 69.
[2] Caspar Olevianus, A Firm Foundation: An Aid to Interpreting the Heidelberg Catechism, trans. Lyle D. Bierma, Texts and Studies in Reformation and Post-Reformation Thought (Carlisle, United Kingdom; Grand Rapids, MI: Paternoster Press; Baker Books, 1995), 68.
