expiation

How To Use expiation In A Sentence

• It needed expiation - atonement to remove guilt and the liability of punishment.
• Although the idea of expiation was not excluded (Lev., i, 4), it retired somewhat into the background, since in the complete destruction of the victim by fire the absolute submission of man to God was to find expression. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
• The word expiation does not once occur in the Scripture. The Vicarious Sacrifice, Grounded in Principles of Universal Obligation.
• They extended to religious observance and penance, or expiation, though in the later period there is a tendency to concentrate on what looks more today, in the west, like law.
• A very necessary feature of the expiation is the marksmanship of my opponent. The Return of Tarzan
• 'served him right,' said Drouet afterward, even in view of her keen expiation of her error.
• This was a sacrifice of expiation; and the reason why he was allowed to offer it on Mount Moriah was partly in gracious consideration to his fear of repairing to Gibeon (1Ch 21: 29, 30), and partly in anticipation of the removal of the tabernacle and the erection of the temple there (2Ch 3: 1). Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
• It's a wraparound justification for a violence whose real end is the expiation of shame through massacre.
• The third… is that of expiation, propitiation and reconciliation… [and] the fourth end, finally, is that of impetration.
• But Rome's inference hence, is utterly false that the Church has a stock treasury of the merits and satisfactions of Christ and His apostles, out of which she may dispense indulgences; the context has no reference to sufferings in expiation of sin and productive of merit. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible