““I am completely in agreement with you that Christ is no longer—in the Gospels—an unrevealed scapegoat. It’s the opposite: now he is spoken of openly as the scapegoat! Therefore I am completely in agreement with your phrase: “Even if Christ is our scapegoat, he is not that of the Father, and the sacrificial understanding is always relative, while the absolute is that which is beyond all sacrifice.”174””
![“Even if Christ is our scapegoat, he is not that of the Father, and [so] the sacrificial understanding is always relative, while the absolute is that which is beyond all sacrifice. Tell me what you think. Is it that the definition of perfect love between the Father and the Son, or the identity of…” quote by Scott Cowdell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/bb6/scott-cowdell-38548_learning_even-if-christ-is-our-scapegoat-he-is-no_2543991.jpg)
![“A text structured by the scapegoat effect cannot make a theme of this; [and in turn] a text that makes a theme of the scapegoat cannot be structured by this effect. In the gospels, Christ is so obviously the scapegoat of everyone [in the text] that he can no longer be the scapegoat of the text…” quote by Scott Cowdell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/2ee/scott-cowdell-38548_quote_a-text-structured-by-the-scapegoat-effec_2664727.jpg)
