Among the Romans, he was said to redeem another who laid down a price equivalent for the ransom of the prisoner. This blood being the blood of that person who was God as well as man is a price sufficient for the ransom of millions. To be redeemed from Turkish slavery is a great mercy, but it is infinitely more to be redeemed from sin. There may be some darkness in the air at the sun's first rising, but not when the sun is at the full meridian. A reatu , from the guilt of sin, though not the stain.
Guilt is the binding a person over to punishment.
A justified person is redeemed a dominion, from the power and regency of sin, though not from the presence. But Christ has redeemed the believer from this malediction, he has set him out of the power of hell and danmation. To an inheritance. The heavenly inheritance is irradiated with light. To an inheritance incorruptible.