Redemption’s Manward References Just as we found with Christ’s cross work construed as propitiation and reconciliation, so also with his cross work construed as redemption: the New Testament represents Christ’s redemptive activity, in its objective character, as an accomplished fact. In every instance the aorist tense is employed to describe his redemptive work at the cross (“to give”—Matt. 20:28; Mark 10:45; “redeemed”—1 Pet. 1:18–19; “entered once for all …, obtaining”—Heb. 9:12; “has taken place”—