Sozo: Salvation Means Wholeness
Isaiah 35.4 - 6
The greek word sozo, found in the New Testament, is used for ‘saving’, ‘healing’, ‘preserving’ and ‘making whole’, from which the theological word ‘soteriology’, or the study of salvation, is derived. Wholeness is much broader than (though it implicitly includes) the healing of the body, etc. This is in line with the prophet Isaiah’s message ‘to those with fearful hearts’, whose God ‘will come with vengeance... to save’; for ‘Then will the eyes of the blind be opened and the ears of the deaf unstopped... the lame leap like a deer, and the tongue of the dumb shout for joy.’ (Isaiah 35:4-6)
Come Holy Spirit, p.18
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