The Definition of the word Ransom

Ransom

The price or payment made for our redemption, as when it is said "that the Son of man "gave his life a ransom for many" (Matt." "20:28; comp. Acts 20:28; Rom. 3:23, 24; 1 Cor. 6:19, 20; Gal." "3:13; 4:4, 5: Eph. 1:7; Col. 1:14; 1 Tim. 2:6; Titus 2:14; 1" "Pet. 1:18, 19. In all these passages the same idea is" expressed). This word is derived from the Fr. rancon; Lat. redemptio. The debt is represented not as cancelled but as fully paid. The slave or captive is not liberated by a mere gratuitous "favour, but a ransom price has been paid, in consideration of" which he is set free. The original owner receives back his alienated and lost possession because he has bought it back with a price. This price or ransom (Gr. lutron) is always said "to be Christ, his blood, his death. He secures our redemption by" the payment of a ransom. (See [521]REDEMPTION.)