{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/211/2111133.htm","path":"chr/ecf/211/2111133.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/211/2111133.htm","text":"How the title of Saviour is given to Christ in one sense, and to men in another.\n\u201cThou,\u201d he says, \u201cart our God, and we knew Thee not, O God of Israel the Saviour.\u201d Although holy Scripture has already shown by many and clear tokens, who is here spoken of, yet it has most plainly pointed to the name of Christ by using the name of Saviour: for surely the Saviour is the same as Christ, as the angel says: \u201cFor to you is born this day a Saviour who is Christ the Lord.\u201d 2482 For everybody knows that in Hebrew \u201cJesus\u201d means \u201cSaviour,\u201d as the angel announced to the holy Virgin Mary, saying: \u201cAnd thou shalt call His name Jesus, for He it is that shall save His people from their sins.\u201d 2483 And that you may not say that He is termed Saviour in the same sense as the title is given to others (\u201cAnd the Lord raised up to them a Saviour, Othniel the Son of Kenaz,\u201d 2484 and again, \u201cthe Lord raised up to them a Saviour, Ehud the son of Gera\u201d 2485 ), he added: \u201cfor He it is that shall save His people from their sins.\u201d But it does not lie in the power of a man to redeem his people from the captivity of sin,\u2014a thing which is only possible for Him of whom it is said, \u201cBehold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.\u201d 2486 For the others saved a people not their own but God\u2019s, and not from their sins, but from their enemies.\nS. Luke ii. 11.\n580:2483\nS. Matt. i. 21.\n580:2484 580:2485 580:2486\nS. John i. 29.","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol. XI: The Works of John Cassian.: Chapter XII. How the title of Saviour is given to Christ in one sense, and to men in another.","type":"page"}