The Infinite Value of Christ's Sacrifice
By Gustave Doré - https://santatizing.wordpress.com/2012/12/27/the-one-to-be-sacrificed-is-laughter/crucifixion-dore/, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=49740042 That Death was precious beyond the power of human thought, and yet the Saviour yielded Himself to be sold to His murderers for a trifling sum, so that even this should be full of poverty and dishonour for Him. By being bought He willed to share the lot of a slave and be subject to outrageous treatment. He considered it gain to be dishonoured for our sake; by being sold for a trifling sum He would indicate that He came freely, as a Gift, to Suffer Death for the world. Willingly He Died, having wronged no one either for the sake of His Own Life or for the common good, supplying graces to His murderers far greater than they could wish or hope for. "But why do I mention these things? It is God Who Died; it was God's Blood Which was Shed upon the Cross. What could be more Precious than This D...