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The Blessed Hope and the Ransom
Titus 2:13-14
13 looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ, · WEB
The Christian stands between two appearings — one that has happened and one awaited — and the same person is the content of both.
Verse 12 placed the reader in this present age; verse 13 tells them what they are watching for. The blessed hope and appearing — epiphaneia G2015, the noun beside verse 11's verb — of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ. The first appearing came in grace, the second comes in glory, and the letter has been building toward this line since its first page: Savior has passed six times between the Father and the Son, and here the two titles close on one name.
Verse 14 says what that person did. He gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and purify for himself a people for his own possession — periousios G4041, the word the Greek Old Testament uses when Israel is called a treasured people Exodus 19:5 Deuteronomy 14:2. The purchase creates a possession, and the possession is described by its eagerness: zealous for good works. Redemption ends in a people who want to.
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