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.