This office and duty of Mediator and Surety the Lord Jesus undertook most willingly. To discharge it, He was made under the law, and perfectly fulfilled it, and He underwent the punishment due to us, which we should have borne and suffered. He was made sin and was made a curse for us; enduring the most grievous sorrows in His Soul with the most painful sufferings in His body. He was crucified, died, and remained in the state of the physical death, but His body did not undergo any decomposition.
[Contributed by Pastor Justin Pierce]