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Redeemer

noun

A teacher and prophet born in Bethlehem and active in Nazareth; his life and sermons form the basis for Christianity (circa 4 BC - AD 29). Synonyms: Christ, Deliverer, Good Shepherd, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Jesus of Nazareth, Savior, Saviour, the Nazarene.

Someone who redeems or buys back (promissory notes or merchandise or commercial paper etc.).

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"Redeemer" Quotes from Famous Books

... the Laws of GOD." "When you see this Orb set under this Cross," (says the Archbishop, on delivering those insignia of Royalty,) "remember that the whole World is subject to the power and empire of CHRIST our Redeemer ... so that no man can reign happily, who ... directs not all his actions according to His Laws." ... No further change in the order of things is anywhere intimated. The Faith hath been hapax,—once and for ever,—delivered to the Saints. Forsaken, it may be: by many, (alas!) ...

— Inspiration and Interpretation - Seven Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford • John Burgon

... and complete equivalent for all that humanity deserves, but we must individually appropriate it by faith or it will not avail for us; we shall go to hell all the same. If on the other hand we do claim the benefit of this finished work, the merits of the Redeemer are imputed to us; we are held to be justified before God, and are gradually sanctified by the Holy Spirit operating within our souls and fashioning us into the moral ...

— The New Theology • R. J. Campbell

... it was sudden. I was weary of spiritual passion, and this great exaltation of the body above the soul at once conquered and led me captive; this plain scorn of a world as exemplified in lacerated saints and a crucified Redeemer opened up to me illimitable prospects of fresh beliefs, and therefore new joys in things and new revolts against all that had come to form part and parcel of the commonalty of mankind. Till now I had not even ...

— Confessions of a Young Man • George Moore

... forbidden; our will is, that they be not proposed publicly from the pulpit to the people. But as to those who in relation to such passages only believe and teach that God hath from all eternity chosen to salvation, from the mere motion of his will, through Jesus Christ our Saviour and Redeemer, those who by grace which they have not merited, and by the operation of the Holy Spirit, believe in Jesus Christ our Lord, and by free grace given them persevere in the faith to the end, we will that they be not molested ...

— The Life of the Truly Eminent and Learned Hugo Grotius • Jean Levesque de Burigny

... only God's word can. Job had suffered, had been bereft of all that made life worth the holding, and yet he had garnered from the seed sown in anguish, not bitterness and despair and hatred of God and man, but a golden harvest of divine revelation, a wealth of eternal hope and joy: "I know that my Redeemer liveth!" ...

— Treasure Valley • Marian Keith

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