"Underlying the fact that these and other things are said to turn away the divine wrath is the basic truth that God is by nature merciful rather than wrathful. Indeed wrath may be thought of as His 'strange work' (Is. 28:21)...While wrath is a dreadful reality, it must not be taken as the last word about God." (Morris)
"If we understand it properly (God's wrath) it has nothing whatever to do with primitiveness, with naive anthropomorphism. On the contrary, it is the necessary expression of God, taking himself and us seriously. He takes us so seriously that our changed attitude with regard to him produces a change in his attitude towards us... The term 'God's wrath' therefore means that the breach of communion, which has been made from our side, means also a breach for God. It means that our guilt is guilt in his sight too, that our separation from him is a reality for him too, that his holy will, encountering resistance, becomes in itself resistance." (Emil Bruner)
"Indeed, it is largely because wrath is so fully personal in the Old Testament that mercy becomes so fully personal, for mercy is the action of the same God who was angry, allowing His wrath to be turned away." (Morris)
"Whoever thinks he can smile at God's wrath will never praise him eternally for his grace." (Heinrich Vogel)
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I figured you'd post this one:
"On the other hand he [Paul] never says in so many words that the righteousness of Christ was imputed to believers, and it may fairly be doubted whether he had this in mind in his treatment of justification, although it may be held to be a corllary from his doctrine of identification of the believer with Christ." (282)
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