Our "tree across the ravine"

Through [Christ] we have now received the reconciliation. (Romans 5:11)

Bob Griffin tells about the difficulty Bible translators had putting the word reconciled into the native Auca language. . . Then one day a translator was traveling through the jungle with some of the Auca people. They came to a narrow, deep ravine, and the missionary thought they could go no farther. The Aucas, however, took out their machetes and cut down a large tree so that it fel over the ravine, permitting them all to cross safely.

The translator, listening intently, discovered that they had a word for "tree across the ravine." This seemed to be the best way to express the meaning of the word reconciled. . .

[Christ] is our "tree across the ravine."