Dict: easton - Ransom

easton:

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" kjv@Matthew:20:28; comp. kjv@Acts:20:28; kjv@Romans:3:23-24; kjv@1Corinthians:6:19-20; kjv@Galatians:3:13 kjv@Galatians:4:4-5: kjv@Ephesians:1:7; kjv@Colossians:1:14; kjv@1Timothy:2:6; kjv@Titus:2:14; kjv@1Peter: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 REDEMPTION.)