“Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father:”
Who gave himself for our sins to deliver us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father — the crucifixion is cast as both redemptive sacrifice and cosmic liberation (aion, 'age'), with Christ's self-gift as the mechanism of eschatological rescue from the powers that enslave humanity.
Church Fathers on Galatians 1:4
“Who gave himself for our sins.” Thus it appears, that the ministry which He undertook was free and uncompelled; that He was delivered up by Himself, not by another. Let not therefore the words of John, “that the Father gave His only-begotten Son” John 3:16 for us, lead you to derogate from the dignity of the Only-begotten, or to infer therefrom that He is only human. For the Father is said to have given Him, not as implying that the Son's ministry was a servile one, but to…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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