Charles engages himself to work for Mr. Smith and earns one
hundred dollars and receives that amount of money in cash. By his labor
Charles has here reduced his time and strength and vigor to a money
value and has received that money value, which money has purchasing
power and which can be used to pay John's obligation and thus release
him from prison.
[240]Charles then appears before the court which has entered the
judgment against his brother John, and offers to pay the one hundred
dollars which the law demands of John. The money is accepted from
Charles and John is released. By this means John is judicially relieved
from the effects of the judgment and is set free, and his brother
Charles has become his ransomer or deliverer.
[241]In this illustration John represents Adam. Because Adam violated
God's law, Jehovah judicially determined that Adam should forfeit his
life by dying. He enforced this judgment during a period of 930 years,
during which time Adam begat all of his children. The effect of
sentencing Adam to death was to render all of his children subject to
death. Adam went into death, and since then great numbers of his
children have likewise died. We can say, then, that Adam and all those
who have died and are in their graves are in the great prison-house of
death, and that is what the Prophet of the Lord calls it.
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