“The higher becomes our evaluation of our Lord the deeper becomes our sense of obligations to Him. On a crisp day in February, 1921, B.B. Warfield after a six weeks’ illness, returned to his class for his final lecture. Due to his weakness he asked to be excused from his usual custom of standing to lead an opening prayer, but plunged into a glowing exposition of the third chapter of First John. The discourse quickly gathered about the sixteenth verse as a center. All the eloquence of his Christian heart, all the wisdom of his ripened scholarship focused on the interpretation of that text. ‘The laying down of His life in our stead was a great thing,’ said the Doctor, ‘but the wonder of the text is that He being all that He was, the Lord of glory, laid down His life for us, being what we are, mere creatures of His hand, guilty sinners deserving His wrath.’ The more fully we realize His glory and His gift and our pettiness and our heinousness the deeper becomes our wonder at His grace and our wish to glorify His Name.” — William C. Robinson, Our Lord: An Affirmation of the Deity of Christ (1937), pp. 148-149