The name “Jesus” means “God saves” (see Matt. 1:21), and the conviction that God is the one and only Savior has always been central to those who look to Jesus as the “pioneer and perfecter” of their faith (Heb. 12:2). Its importance can be gauged from the fact that one of the favorite biblical texts of the earliest Christian writers was Isaiah 63:9 (LXX): “Neither an elder, nor an angel, but the Lord will save them because he loves them, and will spare
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