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Then God is gracious to him, and says, `Deliver him from going down to the pit, I have found a ransom.`
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The Ransom is Jesus Christ
Most commentators, especially Spurgeon and Henry, see a clear foreshadowing of the gospel here. They identify Jesus Christ as the ultimate 'ransom' God has found to deliver humanity from 'the pit' of sin and death. As Matthew Henry puts it, Christ is both 'the Purchaser and the Price,' whose sacrifice is the only thing sufficient to atone for sin and redeem a soul.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Then He is gracious to him - That is, assuming that he hears and regards what the messenger of God communicates. If he rightly understands t…
19th Century
Anglican
Then he is gracious to him — i.e., God is gracious; He accepts the mediation of the mediating angel. These words of Elihu's must …
Baptist
If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand to show unto man his uprightness: Then he is gracious unto him, and sait…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Then he is gracious to him To the sick man; either the messenger or the minister that is with him, who pities his ca…
Job complained of his diseases and concluded from them that God was angry with him; his friends did so too. But Elihu shows that God often afflicts…
13th Century
Catholic
Elihu has already proposed the things he intended to debate with Job. Since Job, before he spoke the words Elihu cited (Job 33:10–11), …
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