How To Use Propitiation In A Sentence
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First to atone for the murder still unexpiated, she held above their heads the young of a sow whose dugs yet swelled from the fruit of the womb, and, severing its neck, sprinkled their hands with the blood; and again she made propitiation with other drink offerings, calling on Zeus the
The Argonautica
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We need to know and proclaim the Triune God, the Lord of the World, who sovereignly calls Man into a relationship of love with himself through the objective propitiation made by Christ.
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Gifts given without cause and beyond the ability to expend, self-sacrifices which seem so noble at the time compose propitiation.
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Rituals of traditional belief systems mark life-cycle events or involve propitiation for particular occasions and are led by shamans, spirit mediums, or prayer masters (male or female).
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Amongst the Central Australian natives there is never any idea of appealing for assistance to any one of these Alcheringa ancestors in any way, nor is there any attempt made in the direction of propitiation, with one single exception in the case of the mythic creature called
The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia
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Barbara Walters adopted the tone and pose of a rock band groupie when interviewing the newly elected President Jimmy Carter in the fall of 1976. “Be wise with us, governor,” she said. “Be good to us.” Not a request addressed to a fellow citizen, but as with the begging of a golf ball from Tiger Woods or the offering of a pudendum to the members of Mötley Crüe, the propitiation of a god.
Lewis Lapham: Domesticated Deities: About Messiahs Come to Redeem Our Country, Not Govern It
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The word translated camphire is copher, the same word that signifies atonement or propitiation.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
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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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As mentioned many times before, I like retaining the word propitiation, and the translation of the underlying Greek word is the subject of the comparisons.
Undefined
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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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See especially Rom. 3: 25; and note the marginal rendering -- "foreordained" -- making the passage read: "Whom God hath foreordained to be a propitiation.
Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern
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Previously the anxiety and fear attendant upon all human life was understood as Fear of the Gods, and dealt with by propitiation, which is to say by sacrifice.
Israel, Isaac and the Return of Human Sacrifice
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In several translations the term propitiation is used of Christ's actions on behalf of the people of God.
Open source theology - Comments
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These genealogies are sacred and their recitation is a great act of propitiation.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva
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The death of Christ propitiates God, and the word ‘propitiation’ contains the thought of averting the wrath of God.
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In the context of hunting, young girls are the appropriate instrument for the propitiation of the goddess and the securing of her favour.
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Yet the tigers of the Chitwan Valley can be elusive in the absence of propitiation by Tharu priests.
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a feeble polytheism -- a kind of demonolatry; for, as good spirits do not injure one, one's whole time is given to the propitiation of the evil.
Over the Rocky Mountains to Alaska
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How do you define the nature of that atonement or propitiation which Jesus Christ made?
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God had often declared that to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams, that sacrifice and offering he would not; the legal sacrifices had their virtue and value from the institution, and the reference they had to Christ the great propitiation; but otherwise, of themselves, it was impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sin.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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But all human efforts, all the lavish gifts of the emperor, and the propitiations of the gods, did not banish the sinister belief that the conflagration was the result of an order.
Tacitus on Mythicism
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Little Menie was the first person to whom he made the amende honorable; and a much smaller propitiation than the new doll with which he presented her would have been accepted as an atonement for a much greater offence.
The Surgeon's Daughter
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Similarly, there are other rituals outside their sphere of activity, such as the propitiation or exorcism of dangerous spirits.
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His death was a sacrifice to God and a propitiation for the remission of sins.
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The mechanism of propitiation carries with it covert hostility.
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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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Polly only thought, at that time, of improving on her successful propitiation of Miss Nipper, and devising some means of having little Florence aide her, lawfully, and without rebellion.
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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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Yet the word propitiation KJV, NASB, or “atoning sacrifice,” NIV is neither used quite so often nor understood quite as well.
THE NAMES OF JESUS
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Thus the name indicated the joy of the people at the fancied propitiation of the god by this sacrifice; in antithesis to its joyless name subsequently. valley of slaughter -- It should be the scene of slaughter, no longer of children, but of men; not of "innocents" (Jer 19: 4), but of those who richly deserved their fate.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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They deny both the necessity and the validity of atonement by the death of the Cross, and affirm that its propitiation is not necessary to salvation.
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Similarly, there are other rituals outside their sphere of activity, such as the propitiation or exorcism of dangerous spirits.
