expiatory offering
Example Sentences
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Or the analogy of the ceremonial law is accepted; and then Christ is set forth as a propitiatory or expiatory offering to obtain remission of sins for us.
From Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors by James Freeman Clarke
Caesar's death might be regarded as a sacrifice, an expiatory offering for the sins of the nation; and the divided parties might embrace in virtue of the atonement.
From Caesar: a Sketch by James Anthony Froude
The clothes thus taken were then all solemnly burned, as an expiatory offering, with invocations to the shade of Melissa.
From Darius the Great Makers of History by Jacob Abbott
It was proposed to burn it, but mark the reply; they advise not only to send it back, but also to offer an expiatory offering for the sin of the warriors.
From The Bible: what it is by Charles Bradlaugh
The Roman made an expiatory offering, and prayed, Whatever god or goddess thou art to whom this grove is sacred, be propitious to me, my family, and children, etc.
From Walden by Henry David Thoreau
