{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"9213ae3504451e3ef35c50316359a45f4f4f31980b7a52b86a7784219a20c38f","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-catena-225","native_reference":{"book_number":490,"chapter_from":1,"chapter_to":1,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":77,"verse_to":77},"public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"verse-keyed-module-record","review_required":["English edition and exact text","author/work attribution","dating","verse mapping and citation kind","reuse and attribution","split author quotations and deduplicate"],"review_status":"unreviewed","source_html":"<p>Ver 77. To give knowledge of salvation to his people by the remission of their sins.</p><p>. For the manner in which the forerunner prepared the way of the Lord he explains, adding, To give knowledge of salvation. The Lord Jesus is salvation, but the knowledge of salvation, i.e. of Christ, was given in John, who bore witness of Christ.</p><p>; For as if desiring to explain the name of Jesus, i.e. the Savior, he frequently makes mention of salvation, but lest men should think it was a temporal salvation which was promised, he adds, for the forgiveness of sins.</p><p>. For in no other way was He known to be God, but as having forgiven the sins of His people. For or it is of God alone to forgive sins.</p><p>; But the Jews prefer not to receive Christ, but to wait for Antichrist; for they desire to be delivered not from the dominion of sin within, but from the yoke of man's bondage without.</p>","source_html_sha256":"0d8d2cc17f86a156e1f6fb8ee128498438d2cc34ab28a58ce4125725050b842f","source_module":"CATENA","source_row_id":225,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/catena/","text_sha256":"9cba5182cfb018eb40a63f8ca058dca4bb73fb843e3bde10326cf427a2163a08","translator":null,"work":null}