Redemption (theology)

Redemption is a theological concept that exists as an element of theories of salvation, and which broadly means the deliverance from sin.

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Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations

Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 660.

• In cruce salus.
  • Salvation by the cross.
  • Thomas à Kempis, De Imitatio Christi (c. 1418), Book II, 2; adapted from "A cruce salus".

• Say, heavenly pow'rs, where shall we find such love?
  Which of ye will be mortal to redeem
  Man's mortal crime, and just th' unjust to save.
  • John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667; 1674), Book III, line 213.

• And now without redemption all mankind
  Must have been lost, adjudged to death and hell
  By doom severe.
  • John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667; 1674), Book III, line 222.

• Why, all the souls that are were forfeit once;
  And He that might the vantage best have took
  Found out the remedy.
  • William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure (1603), Act II, scene 2, line 73.

• Condemned into everlasting redemption for this.
  • William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing (1598-99), Act IV, scene 2, line 58.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

Quotes reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895).

• O, if there be any kind of life most sad, and deepest in the scale of pity, it is the dry, cold impotence of one, who has honestly set to the work of his own self-redemption.
  • Horace Bushnell, p. 488.

• Underneath all the arches of Scripture history, throughout the whole grand temple of the Scriptures, these two voices ever echo, man is ruined, man is redeemed.
  • Cyrus David Foss, p. 489.

• Christ is redemption only as He actually redeems and delivers our nature from sin. If He is not the law and spring of a new spirit of life, He is nothing. "As many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God," — as many, no more.
  • Horace Bushnell, p. 489.

• By Christ's purchasing redemption, two things are intended, His satisfaction, and His merit. All is done by the price that Christ lays down, which does two things: it pays our debt, and so it satisfies; by its intrinsic value, and by the agreement between the Father and the Son it procures our title, and so it merits. The satisfaction of Christ is to free us from misery, and the merit of Christ is to purchase happiness for us.
  • Jonathan Edwards, p. 489.

• Whatever in Christ had the nature of satisfaction, was by virtue of His suffering or humiliation; whatever had the nature of merit, was by virtue of His obedience or righteousness.
  • Jonathan Edwards, p. 489.

• As God carries on the work of converting the souls of fallen men through all ages, so He goes on to justify them, to blot out all their sins, and to accept them as righteous in His sight through the righteousness of Christ. He goes on to adopt and receive them from being the children of Satan to be His own children, to carry on the work of His grace which He has begun in them, to comfort them with the consolations of His Spirit, and to bestow upon them, when their bodies die, that eternal glory which is the fruit of Christ's purchase.
  • Jonathan Edwards, p. 489.

• Look, therefore, which way we will, whether at the direct Scriptural statements of death as the penalty of sin, or at the agony of the cross as a means of rescue, or at the joy of the angels of God over a rescue; we see from either that it must be a work of infinite and eternal consequence — the work of redemption.
  • Herrick Johnson, p. 490.

• What a memorable epoch that will be when Jesus Christ shall -have vacated the throne of mercy! What an awful event in the history of our universe will that be when the dispensation that cost so much, that lasted so long, when that shall cease, when that shall disappear and be no more at all in the universe of God Almighty! It seems to me the very thought ought to start every sinner to his feet in a moment! Lord Jesus, help! that we may embrace the offered mercy!
  • Bishop Daggett, p. 490.