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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