In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:
Ver. 14. Even the forgiveness, &c.] See Trapp on " Mat 1:21 " Sin is the greatest evil; as that which sets us farthest from God the chiefest good; and as that which procureth and embittereth all other evils that befall us. Christ therefore redeemeth his "Israel from their iniquities," Psalms 130:8; he crosseth out of God's debtbook the black lines of their sins with the red lines of his own blood, and so "redeemeth his Israel out of all their troubles," Psalms 25:22 .