Reading the Ransom Logion in 1 Tim 2,6 and Titus 2,14 with Isa 42,6-7; 49,6-8 The reception of the ransom logion in 1 Tim 2,6 and Titus 2,14 has occasioned much discussion. However, very little of this discussion, if any at all, involves observing how the logion is similarly received in both works. In this short study I will demonstrate that in 1 Tim 2,6 and Titus 2,14 the same author exhibits a pattern of reading the ransom logion in light of Isa 42,6-7; 49,6-8. Mark 10,45c kai; dou'nai th;n yuch;n aujtou' lutron ajnti; pollw'n v oJ dou;" eauton ajntivlutron J ; uper pavntwn J; 1 Tim 2,6 edwken [ eJauto;n uJpe;r hJmw'n, ina lutrwvshtai { Titus 2,14 The above comparison demonstrates why there is little doubt among scholars that 1 Tim 2,6 and Titus 2,14 are influenced by a version of the ransom logion similar to that found in Mark 10,45c. In what follows, I would like to discuss how these two occurrences of the ransom logion in the Pastorals are read in light of Isa 42,6-7; 49,6-8. I begin my discussion with the logion in Titus 2,14. The ransom logion in Titus 2,14 is augmented by two i{na clauses that serve to expand its meaning. The two i{na clauses following the self-giving statement (o}" e[dwken eJauto;n uJpe;r hJmw'n) are (1) i{na lutrwvshtai hJma'" ajpo; pavsh" ajnomiva", and (2) kaiv [i{na] kaqarivsh/ eJautw/' lao;n periouvsion. The vast majority of the secondary literature sees the same texts behind the first and second i{na clauses. The first i{na clause is said to be influenced by Ps 130,8 [129,8 LXX], the second i{na clause is influenced by Exod 19,5, and both clauses are influenced by Ezek 37,23 (1). I would like to suggest instead that Isa 42,6-7 and 49,6-7 are behind the two i{na clauses. I suggest this because the two i{na clauses in Titus 2,14 are almost completely parallel to Barn 14,6, and Barn 14,6 is nothing more than the author’s summary of Isa 42,6-7; 49,6-7, which is quoted in Barn 14,7-8. In what follows, I parallel the two i{na clauses from Titus 2,14 alongside Barn 14,6. ina lutrwvshtai { hJma'" ajpov pavsh" ajnomiva" Titus 2,14a lutrwsamenon v hJma'" ejk tou' skovtou", Barn 14,6a kai; kaqarivsh/ eJautw/' lao;n periouvsion Titus 2,14b eJtoima'sai eJautw/' laon a{gion ; Barn 14,6b (1) F. BÜCHSEL, “luvtron, ajntivlutron, lutrovw, luvtrwsi", lutrwthv", ajpoluvtrwsi"”, TDNT, IV, 351 n. 14; T. KNÖPPLER, Sühne im Neue Testament. Studien urchristlichen Verständnis der Heilsbedeutung des Todes Jesu (WMANT 88; Neukirchen-Vluyn 2001) 186; A. LAU, Manifest in Flesh. The Epiphany Christology of the Pastoral Epistles (WUNT II/86; Tübingen 1996) 151-52; I.H. MARSHALL, The Pastoral Epistles (ICC; Edinburgh 1999) 284-285; L. OBERLINNER, Die Pastoralbriefe. Dritte folge, Kommentar zum Titusbrief (HTKNT XI/2; Freiburg 1996) 138; H. STETTLER, Die Christologie der Pastoralbriefe (WUNT II/103; Tübingen 1998) 260; P. TOWNER, The Letters to Timothy and Titus (NICNT; Grand Rapids, MI 2006) 760-766; et al.