In Notes on Exodus, by C.H.M., he says, "It is by His stripes, not by His obedient life, that we are healed; and those stripes He endured on the cross, and nowhere else." Surely this is so. We ought to carefully distinguish between the sufferings He endured at the hands of men, as the faithful and true Witness for God in a scene of evil, and those sufferings in which atonement was wrought when He was forsaken of God. In the latter He is alone. As to the former, others might through grace walk in the same path, and in their measure endure similar sufferings. Five times did the Apostle Paul receive of the Jews forty stripes save one, and thrice was he beaten with rods. This was fellowship in Christ's sufferings. But in the atoning sufferings none could have fellowship, and in their fullness and depth they must ever remain unknown to us. Up to the cross there was no forsaking, no hiding of God's face, no withdrawal of the light of that Countenance in the sunshine of which the blessed Lord had ever walked. But when in infinite grace He stooped to be made sin, then all was changed. We therefore assuredly believe that the stripes by which we are healed He endured on the cross, and nowhere else.