St. Cyril of Alexandria - Christ Suffers Our Penalty on the Cross (Letter to Bishop Acacius of Scythopolis)

In his epistle to Bishop Acacius of Scythopolis, St. Cyril of Alexandria says that all of humanity is condemned with the κλῆρος (lot or inheritance) of death, and that our Lord and Savior faced it in our place. He begins with quoting the Prophet Isaiah, chapter 53, on the suffering Servant and proceeds to speak of the vicarious substitution of Christ's …