Through his temptations, suffering, death and resurrection Jesus has become our hope. Now we can say to ourselves: “God surely won’t condemn us since it was for us that he sent his Son to be tempted, to be crucified, to die, and to rise again. God cannot despise us since he delivered up his own Son for our sake.” Christ gives us an example of how we should live this life of labor, temptation, suffering, and death. Through his resurrection he is the proof for the life we will live after death. If Jesus had not come as a human being all we would know about human life is that we are born and we die. Jesus took upon himself the human condition we know and gave us a proof of the eternal life we do not know.

—Commentary on Psalm 60.4