Matthew Poole and continuators on Ephesians 1:7

7 In whom we have redemption through his bloud , even the forgiveness of sins , according to the riches of his grace .

In Christ Godman the immediate worker of this Redemption; for though the Father and the Spirit concur'd to it, yet the Redeeming work was peculiarly terminated in the second person. The other two persons have a right of propriety to Redeem us. Christ onely a right of propinquity as assuming our nature, and being of Kin to us.

We elect before mentioned.

Freedom from the Wrath of God, and Curse of the Law to which we are obnoxious, and consequently the Power of Sin and Tyranny of Satan, as the effects of the former.

i. e. By the Sacrifice of his Death upon the Cross where his Bloud was shed. This was the price of Redemption paid to God for us, and wherewith his justice being satisfied, we could no longer be detained under the custody of the Devil, or the dominion of Sin.

Redemption is not Formally forgiveness, but Casually, forgiveness being the effect of it; and it is mentioned not as the onely or adequate, but the prime and principal fruit of Redemption, and upon which the other depend.

What he called Glorious Grace, v. 6. here he calls Riches of Grace, meaning plentifull and superabundant Grace, by a Phrase frequently used by him elsewhere in the same sense, Rom. 9.23. ch. 2.4, 7.

Marginal references: Act. 20.28. Col. 1.14. Heb. 9.12. 1 Pet. 1.18.; Chap. 3.8, 16. Phil. 4.19.