In a penetrating insight, Bauckham writes that belief in the story of salvation "also breaks the cycle by which the oppressed become oppressors in their turn."47 In the Old Testament the Israelites are constantly warned not to oppress immigrants and racial outsiders "because you were foreigners in Egypt" {Leviticus 19:33–34}. The memory of their salvation from slavery not by their own power but by God's grace was to radically undermine their natural human inclination to domination. But, Bauckham writes, "the cross is the event in which the cycle {of the oppressed becoming oppressor} is definitively broken.
( Timothy J. Keller )
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