¹² From Strong’s Systematic Theology.

¹⁴ This same terminology of “ransom” is used in the Old Testament: Job 33:24; Hos. 13:14; Ps. 49:7.

²³ We have in view here God’s judicial punishment, of course, and are not denying that, in His wisdom, God will sometimes use adversity to bring unsaved people to repentance and to a saving knowledge of Himself.