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or many generations, the people of something of Christ’s person and work, for
God have enjoyed meditations on He is the Author, or Source, or Causer, of
Fthe person of Christ, examining His eternal salvation. W.E. Vine gives a help-
many names and titles found throughout ful exposition on this title by teaching that
the written Word. Each name or title pres- Christ “has not merely caused or effected
ents something different about the charac- it (salvation); He is, as His Name, Jesus,
ter of Christ, and the consideration of such implies, our salvation itself.” We recall
leads the believer into deeper affection Simeon holding the infant child in his
toward Him. An enjoyable way to explore arms and praising God, saying, “Mine
these divine names is to go through the eyes have seen thy salvation” (Luk 2:30).
alphabet and find names corresponding Similarly, John writes, “He that hath the
to each letter. In this brief series of articles, Son hath life” (1Jn 5:12). To have salvation
we’ll consider three names and titles from is to have Christ, to have Christ is to have
the Authorized Version, beginning with salvation, and Christ has caused salvation
the first three letters of the alphabet, each to be possible for He is its Author.
having something to do with the “so great In Paul’s letter to the Romans, his doc-
salvation” that He has provided and that trinal treatise on the justification of the
we have entered into and enjoy. sinner, he links Christ with salvation no
fewer than eight times. He writes of “the
The Author of Eternal righteousness of God which is by faith
Salvation of Jesus Christ” (3:22), and in the same
chapter he speaks of “redemption that is
“And being made perfect, he became the in Christ Jesus” (v24). He goes on in the
author of eternal salvation unto all them fifth chapter to write of “peace with God
that obey him” (Heb 5:9). through our Lord Jesus Christ” (v1), being
1
As we consider this title, corresponding “saved from wrath through him” (v9), of
to the first letter in the alphabet, we see being “reconciled to God by the death of
his Son” (v10), and of “eternal life by Jesus
1 Bible quotations in this article are from the Christ our Lord” (v21, and again in 6:23).
KJV. He commences his eighth chapter by stat-

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