THE AUTHOR OF HEBREWS’ TESTIMONY This writer also, by the contrast he draws in the context of “ransoming” between the blood of goats and calves and Christ’s own blood, underscores the price-character of Christ’s blood: “He did not enter by means of the blood of goats and calves; but he entered the Most Holy Place once for all by his own blood, obtaining eternal redemption [λύτρωσιν, lytrōsin] [thereby]” (Heb. 9:12). He says also in 9:15 that “a death has taken place for redemption [ἀπολύτρωσιν,