How To Use Expiation In A Sentence
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He submits as the substitute for sinners who cannot possibly atone for their own sins; that is, he submits to the expiation (wiping clean) of that sin and the propitiation (appeasing satisfaction) of God's justified anger.
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The attempted assassination was an act both of expiation and of restitution.
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The Fast of Atonement was instituted in expiation of a mortal sin and observed as a day of penance and mourning.
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And how shall I make expiation that you may bless the inheritance of Jehovah?
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Even supposing that punishment may effectively protect us in the future, we consider that it must be, in the first place, an expiation of the past.
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And it is this current state of affairs that allows and indeed vitalizes a penal code that calls for ever more executions to be carried out by the state in expiation of such defiling acts that pollute the sacred public domain.
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It is a title I must earn for myself, in expiation for the evil done by others.
A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
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The ritual impurity of a sin also can have social consequences such as stigma or ostracism, which is likewise removed though expiation.
Archive 2008-02-01
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Some modern students of the Bible don’t like the term propitiation because they say it implies pagan notions about fickle gods who need humoring and prefer instead the term expiation NRSV.
THE NAMES OF JESUS
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The Marble Faun (1860), though set in Rome, dwells on the Puritan themes of sin, isolation, expiation, and salvation.
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In our view, punishment ought to be regarded as at once an expiation and a discipline, or, in other words, an expiatory discipline.
Crime and Its Causes
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Al – Ahnaf, ‘Part thy hair and trim thy moustachio and pare thy nails and pluck thine armpits and shave thy pubes268 and ever use the toothstick because therein be two and seventy virtues, and make the Ghusl or complete ablution on Friday, as an expiation for all between the Fridays.’ —
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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The priest would ride out to Parthenope and talk to Mary about sin and expiation.
Dream State
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Best to confess your sins in circumstances like this, then hope for expiation.
A NASTY DOSE OF DEATH
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The moralist is the man who shows life as it is, with its profound lessons of secret expiation which are everywhere imprinted.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5
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Clothed in sackcloth and ashes, they are continuing their work of expiation.
Gueranger: The Mystery of Passiontide and Holy Week
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If an angel from heaven came from almighty God, and told you that Richard was condemned to be chained on that plateau for a hundred years in expiation of his sins before he could enter heaven, and gave you the choice between sharing his exile with him or a throne in the world beneath, which would you choose?
The Romance of Isabel, Lady Burton
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If I am to go at his side to stand before King Marke, I cannot do so with propriety unless I first receive expiation for guilt yet unatoned.
Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama
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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
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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
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The word expiation does not once occur in the Scripture.
The Vicarious Sacrifice, Grounded in Principles of Universal Obligation.
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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.
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A very necessary feature of the expiation is the marksmanship of my opponent.
The Return of Tarzan
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'served him right,' said Drouet afterward, even in view of her keen expiation of her error.
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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
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It's a wraparound justification for a violence whose real end is the expiation of shame through massacre.
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The third… is that of expiation, propitiation and reconciliation… [and] the fourth end, finally, is that of impetration.
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It needed expiation - atonement to remove guilt and the liability of punishment.
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Some modern students of the Bible don’t like the term propitiation because they say it implies pagan notions about fickle gods who need humoring and prefer instead the term expiation NRSV.
THE NAMES OF JESUS
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His own meritorious sufferings in expiation for sin were once for all completely filled up on the Cross.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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After he heard that he was an aruspex, being a man whose mind was not without a tincture of religion, pretending that he wished to consult him on the expiation of a private portent, if he could aid him, he enticed the prophet to a conference.
The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08
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Best to confess your sins in circumstances like this, then hope for expiation.
A NASTY DOSE OF DEATH
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Best to confess your sins in circumstances like this, then hope for expiation.
A NASTY DOSE OF DEATH
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The original of the word atone, or make atonement, In the Hebrew scripture, carries no such idea of expiation.
The Vicarious Sacrifice, Grounded in Principles of Universal Obligation.
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Deity, the symbolic replacing of human life by an animal, the idea of expiation, etc., are declared to belong to a much later period of the history of sacrifice.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
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The predominant emotion was disgust and self-hate mixed with an urgent desire for expiation.