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“But now, Paul says, a new factor has entered the situation. … But now, quite apart from the law, there is a righteousness of God revealed, a righteousness leading to the sinner’s justification through the work of Christ ‘whom God set forth ιλαστηριον.’”

δαθήη, the sole function of the other party being to accept or reject what was determined by the dominant partner.

in Exodus 24...We should regard the blood as both piacular and consecratory. It cleanses the people from their sin and it sanctifies them for their part in the covenant.

(Gn. 15: 17). There are some interesting features of this process of covenant-making, the outstanding one being that again we see Yahweh as taking on Himself all the obligations. He alone symbolically passes through the pieces, probably because Abram was not taking upon himself any obligation.

kārath in the expression ‘to cut a covenant’... The cutting of the animals in pieces seems more intelligible as an invocation of the same fate upon the partners should they be guilty of breaking their compact.

As Büchsel says: ‘The essential meaning of this freeing from the curse of the Law is that He gives not only an actual, but a legally based freedom.‘112 The law of God has no more claim on us.

They did not intend ransom to be taken as a full and sufficient statement of what the atonement was and did, but as far as it goes it gives a picture of one aspect of that great work.

There can be no reasonable doubt in view of Ephesians I : 7 and the context here that we are to think of the payment of a ransom.

the Hebrew words which underlie them. λυτρoω translates in the main two Hebrew verbs, g’l (45 times) and pdh (42 times). Thus in the Old Testament use of the word we find two distinct ideas. The primary thought is the general one of family obligation, and arising out of this is the narrower concept of the payment of price, of redemption.