“Among the most significant of Jesus Christ’s descriptive
titles is Redeemer. . . . The word redeem
means to pay off an obligation or a debt. Redeem
can also mean to rescue or set free as by paying a ransom. If someone commits a
mistake and then corrects it or makes amends, we say he has redeemed himself.
Each of these meanings suggests different facets of the great Redemption
accomplished by Jesus Christ through His Atonement, which includes, in the
words of the dictionary, ‘to deliver from sin and its penalties, as by a
sacrifice made for the sinner.’ [Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 3rd
ed. (1988), ‘redeem.’]”
Elder D. Todd Christofferson, “Redemption, Ensign, May 2013,
109.
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