Deliverer

"Deliverer" stands as a title for Jesus drawn from Paul's citation of Isaiah in Romans 11. The umbrella as it appears in the topical tradition is narrowly defined: the appellation belongs to the one who comes out of Zion to remove ungodliness from Jacob.

The Appellation from Zion

Paul, after stating that "all Israel will be saved," quotes the prophetic word: "There will come out of Zion the Deliverer; He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob" (Rom 11:26). The title attaches to the figure whose advent is from Zion and whose work is to "turn away ungodliness from Jacob" — a salvation that is at once national in its scope ("all Israel will be saved") and moral in its substance (ungodliness removed). Within this single verse the appellation is set: the Deliverer is the one through whom Israel's promised salvation arrives.