Today’s citation come from Augustine’s Against Two Letters of the Pelagians (4.6).

This, the catholic faith has known of the one and only mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus, who condescended to undergo death—that is, the penalty of sin—without sin, for us.  As He alone became the Son of man, in order that we might become through Him sons of God, so He alone, on our behalf, undertook punishment without ill deservings, that we through Him might obtain grace without good deservings.  Because as to us nothing good was due so to Him nothing bad was due.  Therefore, commending His love to them to whom He was about to give undeserved life, He was willing to suffer for them an undeserved death.

Jerry Shepherd
Lent
March 26, 2015