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moshia', Greek soter. Salvation from all kinds of danger and evil, bodily, spiritual, temporal, and eternal (; ; -21), including also the idea restorer and preserver, giver of positive life and blessedness, as well as saviour from evil (; ; ; ; ), deliverer, as the judges were saviours (margin ; ; ; Jeroboam II, ; ). (See SALVATION; HOSANNA; REDEEMER.) Isaiah, Joshua or Jeshua, Jesus, Hoshea, Hosea, are various forms of the is associated with the idea, and the term Redeemer (goel) implies how God can be just and at the same time a saviour of mall (; ; ; -24; ; ; ; -17; ; ).
Man cannot save himself temporally or spiritually; Jehovah alone can save (; ; ; ; ; ). The temporal saviour is the predominant idea in the Old Testament; the spiritual and eternal saviour of the whole man in the New Testament Israel' s saviour, national and spiritual, finally (; -26). Salvation is secured in title to believers already by Christ's purchase with His blood; its final consummation shall be at His coming again; in this sense salvation has yet "to be revealed" (; ; ). Salvation negatively delivers us from three things: (1) the penalty, (2) the power, (3) the presence of sin. Positively it includes the inheritance of glory, bliss, and life eternal in and with God our Saviour.