σωτήρ

swthvr swthvr,
swth'ro",
oJ (
swv/zw), from Pindar and Aeschylus down, the Septuagint for  [v'y<, h[;Wvy? ( ["yvi/m), savior, deliverer; preserver; (Vulgate (except (where salutaris)) salvator, Luth. Heiland) (cf. B. D., under the word Saviour, I.); (Cicero, in Verr. , Hoc quantum est? Ita magnum, ut Latine uno verbo exprimi non possit. Is est nimirum `soter', qui salutem dedit. The name was given by the ancients to deities, especially tutelary deities, to princes, kings, and in general to men who had conferred signal benefits upon their country, and in the more degenerate days by way of flattery to personages of influence; see Passow (or Liddell and Scott), under the word; Paulus, Exgt. Hdbch. ?b. d. drei erst. Evang. i., p. 103f; (Wetstein on ; B. D. as above)). In the N. T. the word is applied to God --
Swthvr
mou, he who signally exalts me, ;
oJ
swthvr
hJmw'n, the author of our salvation through Jesus Christ (on the Christian conception of `to save', see
swv/zw, b. (and on the use of
swthvr cf. Westcott on )), ; ; ; ; ; with
diav
!Ihsou'
Cristou' added, (Rec. omits
diav
!Ihsou'
Cristou');
swthvr
pavntwn, (cf. (); (); ; ; ,; , etc.); -- to the Messiah, and Jesus as the Messiah, through whom God gives salvation: ; ; ;
oJ
swthvr
tou'
kovsmou, ; ;
hJmw'n, ; ; ; ;
swthvr
!Ihsou'"
Cristov", ( (where Rec.^bez^elz inserts
hJmw'n)),11; ; ;
oJ
kuvrio"
kaiv
swthvr, ;
swthvr
tou'
swvmato", universally (`the savior' i. e.) preserver of the body, i. e. of the church, (
swthvr
o[ntw"
aJpavntwn
ejsti
kaiv
genevtwr, of God the preserver of the world, Aristotle, de mundo, c. 6, p. 397{b}, 20);
swthvr is used of Christ as the giver of future salvation, on his return from heaven, . ("The title is confined (with the exception of the writings of St Luke) to the later writings of the N. T." (Westcott as above.))*