Deliverance by Power or Redemption by Price? That Christ’s cross work is to be viewed as a work of deliverance by great power cannot be legitimately doubted. Paul calls Christ “the Deliverer [ὁ ῥυόμενος, ho rhyomenos] out of Zion” (Rom. 11:26). He also declares that Christ “delivered” him from his body of death (Rom. 7:24, ῥύσεται, rhysetai) and “delivered” Christians in general from the coming wrath (1 Thess. 1:10, τὸν ῥυόμενον, ton rhyomenon). E. F. Harrison has perceptively observed,