Concerning
"ransom:"
Ransom means "the price paid for release (from
bondage)."
Isaiah 35:8-10: "And a
highway will be there; it will be called the Way of Holiness.
The unclean will not journey on it; it will be for those who walk
in that Way; wicked fools will not go about on it. No lion
will be there, nor will any ferocious beast get up on it; they will
not be found there. But only the redeemed will walk there,
and the ransomed of the Lord will return. They will enter
Zion with singing; everlasting joy will crown their heads.
Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will
flee away."
See also Isaiah 51:11.
Hosea 13:14: [God said,] "I will
ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from
death. Where, O death, are your plagues? Where, O grave, is
your destruction?"
1 Timothy 2:5-6: "For there is One
God and One Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus, Who
gave Himself as a ransom for all men--the testimony given in
its proper time."
Hebrews 9:14-15: "How much more,
then, will the blood of Christ, Who through the eternal Spirit
offered Himself unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from
acts that lead to death, so that we may serve the living God!
For this reason Christ is the Mediator of a new covenant, that
those who are called may receive the promised eternal
inheritance--now that He has died as a ransom to set them free
from the sins committed under the first covenant."
