So, it is the "being punished" part you disagree with...not necessarily the substitution that he "Died in our place," correct?
What of the following?
"But if those who are under this law appear to be under a curse for not having observed all the requirements, how much more shall all the nations appear to
be under a curse who practise idolatry, who seduce youths, and commit other crimes? If,then, the Father of all wished His Christ for the whole human family to take upon Him the curses of all, knowing that, after He had been crucified and was dead, He would raise Him up, why do you argue about Him, who submitted to suffer these things according to the Father’s will, as if He were accursed, and do not rather bewail yourselves? For although
His Father caused Him to suffer these things in behalf of the human family, yet you did not commit the deed as in obedience to the will of God." - Justin Martyr
“And the Lamb of God not only did this, but was
chastised on our
behalf, and suffered a penalty He did not owe, but which we owed because of the
multitude of our sins; and so He became the cause of the forgiveness of our sins, because
He received death for us, and transferred to Himself the scourging, the insults, and the
dishonour, which were due to us, and drew down upon Himself the appointed curse, being
made a curse for us." - Eusebius of Caesarea
"Thus He offered Himself to the death of the accursed that He might break the curse of the Law, offering Himself voluntarily a victim
to God the Father, in order that by means of a voluntary victim the curse which attended the discontinuance of the regular victim might be removed." - Hilary of Poitiers (c. 300-368)
"Thus, taking a body like our own, because all our bodies were liable to the corruption of
death, He surrendered His body to death in place of all, and
offered it to the Father. This
He did out of sheer love for us, so that in His death all might die, and the law of death
thereby be abolished because, having fulfilled in His body that for which it was appointed,
it was thereafter voided of its power for men." - Athanasius
"If one that was himself a king, beholding a robber and malefactor under punishment, gave
his well-beloved son, his only-begotten and true, to be slain; and
transferred the death and
the guilt as well, from him to his son (who was himself of no such character), that he
might both save the condemned man and clear him from his evil reputation; and then if,
having subsequently promoted him to great dignity, he had yet, after thus saving him and
advancing him to that glory unspeakable, been outraged by the person that had received
such treatment: would not that man, if he had any sense, have chosen ten thousand deaths
rather than appear guilty of so great ingratitude? This then let us also now consider with
ourselves, and groan bitterly for the provocations we have offered our Benefactor; nor let
us therefore presume, because though outraged he bears it with long-suffering; but rather
for this very reason be full of remorse." - John Chrysostom
"But as Christ endured death as man, and for man; so also, Son of God as He was, ever living in His own
righteousness, but dying for our offences, He submitted as man, and for man, to bear the curse which accompanies death. And as He died in the flesh which
He took in bearing our punishment, so also, while ever blessed in His own righteousness, He was cursed for our offences, in the death which
He suffered in bearing our punishment." - Augustine of Hippo
(all citations from this article:
http://www.tms.edu/tmsj/tmsj20i.pdf [admittedly, a pro-penal substitution article...but the quotations should stand and be dealt with on their own])
This is not to say other models of Atonement are invalid, but that a discussion of what Christ did on the cross has always INCLUDED speaking of his punishment on our behalf.
