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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. REDEMPTION BY THE DEATH OF CHRIST. We have seen how Paul regards man as a prisoner in a twofold sense: first, inasmuch as he is under the law as his taskmaster and jailer, which holds him fast in the fetters and the curse of the consciousness of guilt, reveals to him the wrath of God, and is consequently for him the letter that killeth, or delivers over to death; and, secondly, inasmuch as he is sold under sin itself as the power dwelling in his flesh, subjected as a slave, without a will of his own, to its dominating desires. Now with this two-fold imprisonment the Apostle connects redemption by Christ?that is to say, by his death. For it is impossible to doubt that in his eyes the death of Jesus, the Messiah, is not merely the principal, but the exclusive means of salvation. We have already seen (Introduction, p. 7) how the whole of his gospel is comprised in the word of the cross, in the knowledge and preaching of Christ Jesus as the crucified. We shall see more fully later on how far salvation could for Paul be based, Kot toxjv, precisely on this death, as an external fact by itself, and quite apart from the life1 of Jesus, whichpreceded it. Corresponding to the two-fold imprisonment from which the death of Jesus redeemed mankind, the idea of this redemption has also two separate sides to be distinguished. The first signification (both in origin and importance) of the redeeming death of Christ is connected with the sentence of guilt, by which man, as the object of the wrath of God, was placed under the curse of Hie law, subjected to death as the punishment of sin. Man is ransomed from this disastrous state of punishment in that the demand for his punishment is satisfied by the death of Christ as a vicarious expiatory sacrifice. Through this ransom the ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217937047 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217937047 |
| Weight | 0.60 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.41 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 180 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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