2 Peter 2:1..bought.. Limited Atonement Cals. believe that word more than Ar. Universalists.

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The meaning of the Greek word agorazo, translated "bought", in 2 Peter 2:1, always carries with it the meaning, "to buy and to take possession", "to purchase and acquire", "to pay for and obtain", and pay a price to redeem", etc.

Agorazo plays for keeps.

In 2 Peter 2:1, Agorazo maintains its intrinsic meaning to "buy, purchase, spend, pay a price, give valuables, settle up for, or remunerate", etc., with the sense of its connotation also including, "taking possession, acquiring ownership, obtaining, securing, procuring, attaining, making private property, deriving proprietorship, releasing", etc., where it is used in that passage; "But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction."

The word, "bought", as translated from Agorazo, includes the idea that the transaction is consummated. That is the very nature of the word, Agorazo/"bought", whether it is the secular use of the word or the theological or redemptive use of the word.

In instances of secular and pagan usage Agorazo/"bought" is used when a slave raised the purchase price to buy his own freedom. That slave could then take that purchase price amount to the temple priest and the priest would use the slaves money to purchase that slave from their master.8 After the slave had been Agorazo/"bought from their master, they were released and became in essence a freed slave. Everytime there was buying with a price that took place, there was a release or freedom of the slave, from the previous bondage, with a change in ownership.

This word Agorazo/"bought is used 30 times in the New Testament. The New American Standard Bible translates it as buy 25 times, purchase 4 times, and spend 1 time. Of the thirty occurrences, twenty-four are in a common or secular sense such as buying a field (Matt. 13:44) or buying food (Luke 9:13). On five occasions, however, it is used of the souls of people being Agorazo/"bought" a Spiritual and Theological sense as God's children being Agorazo/"bought" with a purchase paid, and with Jesus Christ taking possession of their souls, as their Purchaser. These are:
1 Cor. 6:20 - you have been bought with a price
1 Cor. 7:23 - you were bought with a price
Rev. 5:9 - Thou . . . didst purchase. . . men from every tribe, tongue and people
Rev. 14:3 - who had been purchased from the earth
Rev. 14:4 - These have been purchased from among men
The compound form of this word, Exagorazo, is used four times in the New Testament, and two of those are used with a Theological reference to people's souls being purchased, or Agorazo/"bought" in a Spiritual sense. In Exagorazo, however, the prefix Ex- is also seen as having an intensified or strengthened form of the basic word Agorazo/"bought; and literally meaning, "to buy up" or "to completely buy out of", giving it a emphasis leaning more toward Spiritual Redemption, and is generally translated as "redeem"/"redeemed";
Gal. 3:13 - Christ redeemed us from the curse of the Law
Gal. 4:5 - in order that He might redeem those who were under the Law

 

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2 Peter 2:1..bought.. Limited Atonement Cals. believe that word more than Ar. Universalists.
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#1) 2 Peter 2:1..bought.. = to Buy & Obtain Possession with a New Ownership.

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#2) 2 Peter 2:1..bought.. = to Buy & Obtain Possession with a New Ownership.