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| Chapter XII. How the title of Saviour is given to Christ in one sense, and to men in another.
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Chapter XII.
How the title of Saviour is given to Christ in one
sense, and to men in another.
“Thou,” he
says, “art our God, and we knew Thee not, O God of Israel the
Saviour.” Although holy Scripture has already shown by many and
clear tokens, who is here spoken of, yet it has most plainly pointed to
the name of Christ by using the name of Saviour: for surely the Saviour
is the same as Christ, as the angel says: “For to you is born
this day a Saviour who is Christ the Lord.”2482
For everybody knows that in Hebrew
“Jesus” means “Saviour,” as the angel announced
to the holy Virgin Mary, saying: “And thou shalt call His name
Jesus, for He it is that shall save His people from their
sins.”2483
And that you
may not say that He is termed Saviour in the same sense as the title is
given to others (“And the Lord raised up to them a Saviour,
Othniel the Son of Kenaz,”2484
and
again, “the Lord raised up to them a Saviour, Ehud the son of
Gera”2485
), he added:
“for He it is that shall save His people from their sins.”
But it does not lie in the power of a man to redeem his people from the
captivity of sin,—a thing which is only possible for Him of whom
it is said, “Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of
the world.”2486
For the
others saved a people not their own but God’s, and not from their
sins, but from their enemies.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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