The Scriptural phrases are simply symbolical, it seems to me, and Swedenborg helps you past the symbol.

Then as to the Redemption and its mode--let us receive the thing simply.

Dr.Adam Clarke, whose piety was never doubted, used to say, 'Vicarious suffering is vicarious nonsense.' Which does not hinder the fact that the suffering of the Lord was necessary, in order that we should not suffer, and that through His work and incarnation His worlds recovered the possibility of good.

It comes to the same thing.

The manner in which preachers analyse the Infinite, pass the Divine through a sieve, has ceased to be endurable to thinking men.