¶ 622
In Brief
The Redemption won by Christ consists in this, that he came "to give his life as a ransom for many" (Mt 20:28), that is, he "Loved [his own] to the end" (Jn 13:1), so that they might be "ransomed from the futile ways inheRited from [their] Fathers" (I Pt 1:18).