redemption

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Death for our redemption was the goal of His sojourn here, the gold that he was seeking.

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  1. noun The act of redeeming or the condition of having been redeemed.
  2. noun Recovery of something pawned or mortgaged.
  3. noun The payment of an obligation, as a government's payment of the value of its bonds.

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  • The amount of the redemption was approximately $1.6 million. —  News
  • Death for our redemption was the goal of His sojourn here, the gold that he was seeking. —  The Continuum
  • Everything which concerns thy redemption and my redemption has been accomplished. —  My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year
  • [456] So the redemption is no mere future one; it is even now taking place, and the revelation of the Logos in Jesus Christ is not merely intended to prove the doctrines of the rational religion, but denotes a real redemption, that is, a new beginning, in so far as the power of the demons on earth is overthrown through Christ and in his strength. —  History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7)
  • When nothing of the Spiritual world shall remain subject to Ialdabaoth, the redemption will be accomplished, and the end of the world, the completion of the return of Light into the Plenitude, will occur Tatian adopted the theory of Emanation, of Eons, of the existence of a God too sublime to allow Himself to be known, but displaying Himself by Intelligences emanating from His bosom. —  Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
 

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  1. Middle English redempcioun, from Old French redemption, from Latin redēmptiō, redēmptiōn-, from redēmptus, past participle of redimere, to redeem; see redeem.

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  1. from Middle English redempcion, from Old French redemption, redemptiun, French rédemption = Provencal redempcio =Spanish redencion =Portuguese redempção =Italian redenzione, from Latin redemptio (n-), a buying back or off, a releasing, ransoming, redemption, from redimere, buy back, redeem: see redeem. Cf. ransom, a reduced form of the same word.
 

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