ἀγοράζω (Agorazo)

MEANINGTo buy, to purchase in the marketplace; a completed transaction at a price. Strong's G59: 'properly, to go to market, i.e. (by implication) to purchase; specially, to redeem'.

GRAMMARG59, from agora, the marketplace. 2 Peter 2:1 has the aorist participle agorasanta, 'the Lord that bought them', with persons as its object.

SIGNIFICANCEChrist acquires men one way in the New Testament, by His blood (Acts 20:28, Rev 5:9), so the purchase in 2 Peter 2:1 is redemptive. Yet these bought men 'bring upon themselves swift destruction': a real purchase, at a price, for men who nonetheless perish, which limited atonement cannot allow and universal provision explains exactly. Bought is the price paid; being in Christ is by faith.

KEY VERSE / SCRIPTURES2 Peter 2:1 (the Lord that bought them); Acts 20:28 (purchased with his own blood); Revelation 5:9 (redeemed us to God by thy blood).

CROSS-REFERENCESBought, Then Perished · /answers/agorazo