That the Passion of Christ Worked for Our Salvation in the Mode of Redemption

Saturday after the Second Sunday of Lent

That the Passion of Christ Worked for Our Salvation in the Mode of Redemption

It is written (1 Pet 1:18): You were not redeemed with corruptible things as gold or silver from your vain conversation of the tradition of your fathers: but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb unspotted and undefiled. And (Gal 3:13): Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us. Now He is said to be a curse for us inasmuch as He suffered upon the tree. Therefore He did redeem us by His Passion.

Man was held captive on account of sin in two ways:

1° By the