what dangers is one saved? What is the nature of salvation? Above all, who is the one who saves?2 I. Sōzō and sōtēria in secular Greek.—To save means to deliver when there is a particularly perilous situation, a mortal danger (megalōn kindynōn, Dittenberger, Syl. 1130, 1; Or. 69, 4; 70, 4; 71, 3; SEG VII, 731; SB 8334, 7; 8862, 4; IGUR, n. 193, 6–8): first of all war or deliverance from enemies or opponents,3 then the perils of navigation: “I saved this shipwrecked man when his crew had died”;