τοὺς μέλλοντας κληρονομεῖν σωτηρίαν. Salvation itself is here regarded as future, and this is the general sense (σωτηρία is not used by St. John except 4:22 and in Apoc.). In the Gospels σώζειν means to deliver (a) from danger, Matt. 8:25; John 12:27; (b) from disease, Matt. 9:21; John 11:12; (c) from the condemnation of God, Matt. 10:22; 24:13; (d) from the disease or danger of sin, Matt. 1:21; and one or other of these senses attaches to the verb wherever it recurs. In the present passage
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