Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Timothy 2:6

6 Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.

[non-Latin text not transcribed]. The word here translated Ransom, is very emphatical. It signifies the exchanging of Condition with another, the laying down of ones life to save anothers. This our Saviour has done for us. The Scripture discovers to us, that by nature we are the children of wrath, and guilty of many rebellious sins, and devoted to Eternal Death, being in this deplorable state, the Son of God moved by his Divine Love undertook our restoring to the favour of God: and voluntarily endured the punishment due to our sins, and gave his most precious blood and life the price of our Redemption, Mat. 20.28. If it be objected, how is it consistent with Christ giving himself a ransom for all, that so many perish in their sins: The answer is clear, we must distinguish between the sufficiency of his ransom, and the efficacy of it: he paid a ransom worthy to obtain the Salvation of all men▪ and has done whatever was requisite to reconcile God, and make men capable of Salvation: but onely those who by a lively Faith depend upon him, and obey him, are actual partakers of Salvation; that is, no person but may be saved in believing; and if men perish, it is not from a defect of Righteousness in the Mediatour, but from the love of their lusts, and their obstinate rejecting their own Mercies. And 'tis unjust that the glory of his Divine Compassion and Love should be obscured or lessened for their ungrateful neglect of it.

Marginal references: 1 Cor. 1.6. 2 Thes. 1.10.; Or, a testimony.; Eph. 1.9, 10.