Friday, 11 January 2013

Colossians 1v13-14, Delivered and Redeemed

Delivered (v13) and redeemed (v14) links to the OT

Moo notes a link between v13's delivered (rhyomai) and v14's redemption (lytroō) with the OT.
First from Ex 6:6-8, where "...I will free (LXX, rhyomai) you being slaves to them, and I will redeem (lytroō) you with an outstretched arm and with mighty acts of judgement....I will give it to you [the land] as a possession ( klēros, see v12). ..."
Moo says: "The parallels between this test and Colossians 1:12-14 are obvious: in both God "rescues" (rhyomai; v13) and redeems (lytroō, cf v14) people, taking them out of a situation of bondage and bringing them into an "inheritance" ( klēros, see v12)."
Moo, 103

Second from Psalm 107:
"Psalm 107 celebrates this "redemption" (lytroō, occurs twice in verse 2; cf apolutrōsis, in v14), using the language of "rescue" (rhyomai, vv6, 20) and speaking of the way the Lord had brought the exiles "out of darkness and the deepest gloom" (v14)."
Moo, 103

Third from Isaiah:
Isaiah "...depicts the deliverance from exile as a "redemption", and uses "darkness" to describe the exilic condition and "light" the new state into which the Lord brings his people (e.g. Isa 42:7; Isa 42:16; Isa 49:9)."
Moo, 103

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