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Yes, could have done it;
 * But let me tell you why

He would not use His power,
 * But chose to stay and die.

He had become our "Surety;"
 * And what we could not pay,

He paid, and ,
 * On that one dreadful day.

For sins He suffered;
 * For sins He died;

And "not for ours only,"
 * But all the world's beside!