Slave or Son?

Unlike adoption, the concept of redemption was not new to the Jewish people at the time of the writing of this epistle.

The concept of redemption goes way back, to the time of the Exodus when God delivered His people from slavery and so brought them to Himself that they might “worship [Him] in the wilderness” (Exodus 7:16). In fact, following the Exodus, God spent a significant amount of time instructing His people as to the Law of Redemption in Leviticus 25. He even devoted an entire book of the Bible to the subject, the book of Ruth.

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