For Christ also has once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive by the Spirit:
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Tertullian of Carthage
AD 220
Of our heretic. Now, that the very Lord Himself of all might, the Word and Spirit of the Father.
He might undergo death on behalf of sinners.