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Salvation

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being saved or protected from harm

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The joyes of Life Eternall, are in Scripture comprehended all under the name of SALVATION, or Being Saved. To be saved, is to be secured, either respectively, against speciall Evills, or absolutely against all Evill, comprehending Want, Sicknesse, and Death it self. And because man was created in a condition Immortall, not subject to corruption, and consequently to nothing that tendeth to the dissolution of his…
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
States what Salvation is; names Salvation several times.
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11. The glory of Christ's message, then, here called by Paul "the word of salvation," is much greater and higher than would have been the promise of all the kingdoms, all the riches and splendors of the world, yes, of both heaven and earth. For what could they benefit if one possessed not the Word of salvation and eternal life? With all these, when assailed by sins, or by the distress and danger of death, one must…
Martin Luther, Epistle Sermons, Vol. 2
The chapter “THE WORD OF SALVATION.” is titled for Salvation; states what Salvation is.
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This means that the salvation is one which is quite foreign to our person, and points to a denial and surrender of this person necessary to salvation. Works, the result of the law as such, can never justify, because they are always action following upon motives.
Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Idea
Names Salvation several times; states what Salvation is.
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Salvation

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