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In whom; i.e. in the person of Christ alone God-man, deputed of his Father to die for our salvation, Act_4:12 20:28.
We; as we are in him, made meet, Col_1:12.
Have redemption; we have eternal deliverance, Heb_9:12, effected by a full ransom paid, 1Co_6:20 7:23 1Pe_1:18,19. For the freeing us indeed out of a state of sin and misery, Joh_8:36, or eternal death the wages of sin, Rom_6:23 16:20; so that by redemption here is not meant barely laying down the price, Luk_2:38, nor consummate redemption at the last, Eph_1:14 4:30, but efficacious redemption.
Through his blood; upon the account of Christ’s offering himself an expiatory sacrifice to God, without which is no remission, Heb_9:22 Rev_5:9; effusion of his blood, by a synecdoche, takes in his humiliation to the death of the cross, and the pains of the second death he underwent for us, Isa_53:5,6 Ac 2:24 Gal_3:13 Phi_2:8.
Even the forgiveness of sins; plenary remission of offences is by apposition to, or follows, redemption as a necessary effect, Col_2:13 Luk_1:77 Act_10:43, by a metonymy transferring the cause to the effect: to see more: See Poole on "Eph_1:7".