Mark 8:36-37. These verses are emended in accordance with the best readings. life, same word as in Mark 8:35, comp. Matthew 16:25-26 .

In exchange, lit, ‘as a ransom price.' The price which the earthly minded gives for the world is his ‘life,' in the highest sense. But after having laid that down as the price, what has he as a counter price (that is the exact sense of the Greek word), to buy the life back again?

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Old Testament