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2. Sometimes Christ is called a Redeemer, Isa. 59.20. The redeemer shall come to Zion. Some understand it of Cyrus, others of an Angel, but the most ancient Jewish Doctors understand it of Christ the Redeemer of the Elect: Job 19.25. My redeemer liveth. The Hebrew word for Redeemer, Goel, signifies such an one as is near a Kin, and hath Right to redeem a Mortgage. So Christ is near a kin to us, being our Elder Brother, therefore hath the best right to redeem us.

2. Sometimes Christ is called a Redeemer, Isa. 59.20. The redeemer shall come to Sion. Some understand it of Cyrus, others of an Angel, but the most ancient Iewish Doctors understand it of Christ the Redeemer of the Elect: Job 19.25. My redeemer liveth. The Hebrew word for Redeemer, Goel, signifies such an one as is near a Kin, and hath Right to redeem a Mortgage. So Christ is near a kin to us, being our Elder Brother, therefore hath the best right to redeem us.

3. Christ is called a Mediator in the Text, Jesus the mediator of the new covenant. The Greek word for Mediator [Greek or Hebrew], signifies a middle Person, one that doth make up the breach between two disagreeing Parties. God and we were at Variance by Sin, now Christ doth Mediate and Umpire between us; he reconciles us to God through his Blood, therefore is called the Mediator of the New Covenant. There is no way of Communion and Intercourse between God and Man, but in and ⟨p. 94⟩through a Mediator: Christ takes away the Enmity in us, and the Wrath in God, and so makes Peace; nor is Christ only a Mediator of Reconciliation, but Intercession,