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    expiation


    1. in the spirit of penance in expiation of my many


    2. have always been associated to punishment and the expiation for some crime


    3. Guilt, pain and expiation are still present within our modern Western


    4. expiation, but rather an initiation in the marine labyrinth, and every initiation


    5. soon he will return to it again, and then the expiation will be complete, and


    6. money nor expiation is demanded of him (or her)


    7. She thought of her at dawn, when the ice of her heart awakened her in her solitary bed, and she thought of her when she soaped her withered breasts and her lean stomach, and when she put on the white stiff-starched petticoats and corsets of old age, and when she changed the black bandage of terrible expiation on her hand


    8. “If a human does not have original sin, then why is the death of Christ an expiation for human sins?”


    9. But whoso forgoeth it (in the way of charity) it shall be expiation for him


    10. Revenge always carries with it great pleasure at having one’s pride wounded, but it is a type of pleasure that becomes a self-punishing expiation

    11. The healthy pleasure represented by finding a way to have the need satisfied is rejected, and the unhealthy pleasure of keeping satisfaction of the need at bay takes precedence, which then expresses itself through complaining, revenge and expiation


    12. Expiation will not end until the arrival of the Apocalypse, and pain is necessary to expiate


    13. the expiation of the sins for the Jews, and the death of Jesus


    14. His eyes, although red from the tears, were focused, as if the crying, and the expiation of his distress, had cleansed him


    15. Did Christ die only in the sense in which other men die? Was His death the curse of the Law? Or was it some modification of that curse? Did Christ suffer a pain and misery of the same sort and of equal weight, with that threatened to Adam in the day of his creation, or did He bear some commuted penalty, which, in consideration of His Divine Nature, was accounted a sufficient expiation?


    16. There are influential schools of thought, professedly Christian, and even Protestant, which zealously denounce the notion of an expiation of—past sin by Christ's sacrifice; affirming that there is no direct connection between His death and the forgiveness of sinners


    17. The apostles teach, as plainly as words can teach anything, that the death of Christ was an Atonement by expiation, or sin-offering, for 'SINS THAT ARE PAST’ (progegono>twn, Romans iii


    18. If His death were a sin-offering, an expiation of 'sins that are past,’ He will surely tell us that also


    19. His death was an atonement, an expiation, a propitiation, a sin-offering


    20. So long as Christ Himself is thought of only as a creature, however dignified, no explanation of the Atonement can be given, as au expiation, which does not shock the moral sense, and necessitate sooner or later the abandonment of the expiatory idea

    21. The Unitarians, who reject Christ’s personal Deity, reject as a matter of course the atonement in the sense of expiation


    22. Here alone, we find the revealed reason of the Atonement by the death of Christ, considered as an expiation, or ground for pardoning sinners


    23. The modern advocacy of the doctrine of immortality in Christ has been assailed by them with persistent rebuke during the space of a whole generation (specially by the laymen of the party), as teaching a doctrine that 'lowers men's views of the Atonement of Christ, and of the Evil of Sin, which required that atonement for its expiation


    24. I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss, and, in their struggles to be truly free, in their triumphs and defeats, through long years to come, I see the evil of this time and of the previous time of which this is the natural birth, gradually making expiation for itself and wearing out


    25. the eyes of men, it has none; but I look on it as a slight expiation for a fearful sin


    26. "Why so? In life, our greatest preoccupation is death; is it not then, curious to study the different ways by which the soul and body can part; and how, according to their different characters, temperaments, and even the different customs of their countries, different persons bear the transition from life to death, from existence to annihilation? As for myself, I can assure you of one thing,—the more men you see die, the easier it becomes to die yourself; and in my opinion, death may be a torture, but it is not an expiation


    27. And thus, while standing on the scaffold, in this vain show of expiation, Mr


    28. “It was an act of expiation,” he wrote


    29. She nursed him, she read to him, she anticipated his wants, and was solicitous about his feelings; but there had entered into the husband's mind the certainty that she judged him, and that her wifely devotedness was like a penitential expiation of unbelieving thoughts—was accompanied with a power of comparison by which himself and his doings were seen too luminously as a part of things in general


    30. Whether there had not been an excess of weights in one balance of the scale, in the one which contains expiation

    31. His past life, his first fault, his long expiation, his external brutishness, his internal hardness, his dismissal to liberty, rejoicing in manifold plans of vengeance, what had happened to him at the Bishop's, the last thing that he had done, that theft of forty sous from a child, a crime all the more cowardly, and all the more monstrous since it had come after the Bishop's pardon,—all this recurred to his mind and


    32. But this expiation did not satisfy two sainted women, Madame Courtin, Marquise de Boucs, and the Comtesse de Chateauvieux


    33. Jean Valjean understood thoroughly the expiation of the former; that personal expiation, the expiation for one's self


    34. But he did not understand that of these last, that of creatures without reproach and without stain, and he trembled as he asked himself: The expiation of what? What expiation?


    35. There was one striking thing which caused him to meditate deeply, like a warning whisper from Providence itself: the scaling of that wall, the passing of those barriers, the adventure accepted even at the risk of death, the painful and difficult ascent, all those efforts even, which he had made to escape from that other place of expiation, he had made in order to gain entrance into this one


    36. This was a place of expiation, and not of punishment; and yet, it was still more austere, more gloomy, and more pitiless than the other


    37. "You mean to say, the crime and the expiation


    38. But whatever lay hidden in her secret, much was expiated, if expiation were needed, by those moments of anguish of which I was witness and which I shall never forget


    39. "And my conscience demands that I sacrifice my liberty in expiation of my sin, and my decision to marry her, although but fictitiously, and follow her wherever she may be sent, remains unaltered," he said to himself, with spiteful obstinacy, and, leaving the hospital, he made his way with resolute step to the prison gate


    40. “Yes, Moscow will be surrendered! She will be our expiation!” shouted one man

    41. A moment ago I sent you in the name of compassion; now I send you in expiation for this one intolerable glimpse of Heaven


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    Synonyms for "expiation"

    atonement expiation propitiation satisfaction oblation offering victim

    "expiation" definitions

    compensation for a wrong


    the act of atoning for sin or wrongdoing (especially appeasing a deity)