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While most of Owen's work on the atonement focuses on the efficiency and intent of the work of Christ, it is worthwhile spending a little time reflecting on his understanding of its sufficiency, if only to clarify the foundations of his thinking on this point. There is, of course, a great temptation to move straight to citations of various proof texts to establish Owen's view on this issue, but such a move is scarcely adequate in that it removes these isolated statements from their context within Owen's thought, within contemporary debate, and within the Western tradition of discussion of the sufficiency of Christ's work.