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Being justified (dikaioumenoi). Present passive participle of dikaioō, to set right, repeated action in each case, each being set right.
Freely (dōrean). As in Gal 2:21.
By his grace (tēi autou chariti). Instrumental case of this wonderful word charis which so richly expresses Paul’s idea of salvation as God’s free gift.
Through the redemption (dia tēs apolutrōseōs). A releasing by ransom (apo, lutrōsis from lutroō and that from lutron, ransom). God did not set men right out of hand with nothing done about men’s sins. We have the words of Jesus that he came to give his life a ransom (lutron) for many (Mar 10:45; Mat 20:28). Lutron is common in the papyri as the purchase-money in freeing slaves (Deissmann, Light from the Ancient East, pp. 327f.).
That is in Christ Jesus (tēi en Christōi Iēsou). There can be no mistake about this redemption. It is like Joh 3:16.