Old:
Although our sins have separated us very far from God, so that we have been alienated from the grace, righteousness, and life of God, yet the Son of God has brought very close to us those heavenly blessings which had been removed far from us, laying them before us through the incarnation in the flesh which is of the same substance with our own, so that of His fullness we have received grace for grace.
New:
Yes, our sins have separated us very far from God, and yes, this means we are cut off from all the good things that come from Him: grace, rightness, life...; but those heavenly blessings which had been taken away from us (in the Fall into sin), God's Son has brought to us, laying them at our feet when He took on a body, a body which is made up of the same stuff as we are, so that from His whole and full perfection we have gotten gift after gift.
-Martin Chemnitz, from the Two Natures of Christ
