“If, therefore, the Son of God, who is Lord (of all things), and who will judge the living and the dead, suffered, that His stroke might give us life, let us believe that the Son of God could not have suffered except for our sakes.”—Ep. Barnabas, vii.
“Thou shalt love Him that created thee, thou shalt glorify Him that redeemed thee from death.”—Ep. Barnabas, xix.
Justin Martyr—writing between circa A.D. 114 and A.D. 165:
“Isaiah,” wrote Justin, “did not send you to a laver, there to wash away murder and other sins; but those who repented were purified by faith through the blood of Christ, and through His death, who died for this very reason.”—Dial. with Trypho, xiii.
Writing of Jesus Christ, Justin comments thus on the words written by Moses as prophesied by the patriarch Jacob: “He shall wash his garments with wine, and his vesture with the blood of the grape.” This signified that “He (Jesus Christ) would wash those who believe in Him with His own blood.”—Dial. with Trypho, liv.
“If, then, the Father of all wished His Christ to take upon Him the curses of all, knowing that after He had been crucified and was dead, He would raise Him up”....
“For although His Father caused Him to suffer these things in behalf of the human family”....
“If His Father wished Him to suffer thus in order that by His stripes the human race might be healed.”—Dial. with Trypho, xcv.
“And as the blood of the Passover saved those who were in Egypt, so also the blood of Christ will deliver from death those who have believed.”—Dial. with Trypho, cxi.