On the day before the eve of the Atonement Day, it is a well-known custom for men to swing a living rooster and for women to swing a living hen several times about their heads.
He hoped for recognition there, especially after he had made certain concessions, such as turning the face toward Jerusalem in prayer, and keeping the Day of Atonement on the tenth of Tishri.
Moreover, the realm of love has a higher law thanatonement through retribution.
The Jewish idea of atonement by the sinner's return to God excludes every kind of mediatorship.
The true spiritual power of Judaism appears in this, that it gradually liberates the kernel of the atonement idea from its priestly shell.
As the Mishnah expressly states, even the Day of Atonement cannot bring forgiveness so long as injustice cleaves to one's hand or evil speech to the lips and no attempt is made to repair the injury and appease one's fellow-man.
The highest point of religious devotion in the synagogue is reached on the New Year's day and the Day of Atonement preceding the Feast of Sukkoth.
The prophet must undergo atonement in order to be prepared for his high prophetic task.
This prepared for the dismal church doctrine of original sin, the basis of Paul's teachings, which demanded a blood atonement for curse-laden humanity, and found it after the pagan pattern in the vicarious sacrifice of a dying god.
The Day of Atonement figures in the Mosaic Code as the day when the high priest in the Temple performed the important function of expiation for the sanctuary, the priesthood, and the people.
Guilt causes pain, which overwhelms him, until he has made atonement and obtained pardon before God.
The doctrine of the Atonement never commended itself to his reason, and his sense of justice was disturbed by the idea of the innocent suffering for the guilty.
He felt inspired by fresh courage, and sustained by the hope of making some atonement for what he had done.
For the soul of the flesh is in the blood, and I give it to you upon the altar, to atone for your souls, for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul," viz.
Christ as the true High Priest on account of the atonement to be made by Him; and, after Isaiah, Zechariah says in chap.
Was it so when Jesus came in the meridian of time to make his great atonement for man?
Third, he taught that men will be punished for their own sins and not for Adam's transgression; that through the atonement of Christ all mankind may be saved by obedience to the laws and ordinances of the gospel.
The Fall of man, that fact which gives meaning to the atonement of Christ, and without which the scheme of Christian salvation is but an idle fable--was regarded as merely a myth.
I get the idea that the plan of man's redemption through the atonement of Jesus Christ is at least as old as the foundation of the world.
It was designed as a memorial of Messiah's great atonement for mankind, a token and witness unto the Father that the Son was always remembered.
By means of this view of the satisfaction rendered to the divine justice, we think we have placed the great doctrine of the atonement in a clearer and more satisfactory light than usual.
It is frequently said that the atonement is a satisfaction to divine justice; to which it is replied, that justice requires the punishment of the very individual who offends, and not of another person in his place.
It is easy to see that such a view of the atonement does not in the least degree conflict with the justice of God.
The usual defences of the atonement are good, so far as they go, but not complete.
We do not intend to investigate the subject of a limited atonement in the present work, because it is merely a metaphysical off-shoot from the doctrine of election and reprobation, and must stand or fall with the parent trunk.
The believer should not, for one moment, entertain the low view, that the atonement confers its benefits on man alone.
All such illustrations must be imperfect, in some respects; but the one above given conveys a far more adequate view of the atonement than that presented by Dr.
The atonement was made for man, it is true; but, in a still higher sense, man was made for the atonement.
In truth and in deed, the sinner is just as guilty after the atonement as he was before; and he is just as obnoxious to the inflictions of the retributive justice of God.
But this forms no part of the doctrine which we have undertaken to defend; and, indeed, we think the defence of such a view of the atonement clearly impossible.
Such atonement as was at that moment possible was made for the gross insults which had been offered to foreign governments.
Most of those sectaries who had been induced to express gratitude for the Indulgence were now ashamed of their error, and were desirous of making atonement by casting in their lot with the great body of their countrymen.
This is the best Atonement they can make for their own Crimes, and indeed the only Method that is left them to repair their past Mis-carriages.
The guilty man remaining unknown and not making atonement for his crime, the sacrificed heifer served as an atonement instead.
Stephen had a very great notion of mortifying his body, as some atonement for the crimes he had committed.
And he thought that the chieftain might be sad because of the smallness of the atonement which he had, for the wrong that had been done him.
All the losses that ever I have caused thee," said he, "I will make thee atonement for, equal to what I have taken.
And beside that, as an atonement for the insult, he shall have a staff of silver, as large and as tall as himself, and a plate of gold of the breadth of his face.
Scripture Greek this word means the Mercy Seat, the golden lid of the Ark, above which the Shechinah shone and on which the blood of atonement was sprinkled.
And it bids them look to the Atonementas the objective sine quâ non for that, and to the Resurrection as the one possible, and the only necessary, warrant to faith that the Atonement had secured its end.
I saw the sufficiency of the atonement He had made, my pardon sealed in His blood, and all the fulness and completeness of His justification.
Deep in the heart of the divine doctrine of Atonement lies this element of it, the "because of our transgressions"; the exigency of Golgotha, due to our sins.
We are to see in theAtonement not only a guarantee that we have a valid title to a just acceptance.
You may think me heretical," replied he, "but we don't need to make the extent of the atonement the main topic of our preaching.
In the year 1882 he issued his work on the Mediation and Atonement of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
Can you, for the sake of a girl of whom you have seen but little, or in the Quixotism of atonement for your father's fault, complete the ingratitude I have experienced from those who owed me most?
He felt perhaps that the only atonement he could offer for his wife's brutal conduct was to accede to the request.
His ideas were exceedingly confused, but his instinct told him to make all atonement in his power for his wife's outbursts of temper.
Lastly, I impeach the Atonement as injurious in several ways to human morality.
So far as we can judge, we bear our sins in our own bodies still, and the Atonement helps us not at all.
Roman Catholics and Protestants, at the time of the Reformation, alike believed in the vicarious and substitutionary character of the atonement wrought by Christ.
It is no answer to this to say that there is an escape offered to us through the Atonement made by Jesus Christ.
Both alike regard the Atonementas so much pain tendered by Jesus to the Almighty Father in payment of a debt of pain owed to God by humanity.
On this first count, the Atonementis a fearful injustice.
This vicarious nature of the Atonement also degrades the divine name, by making him utterly careless in the matter of punishment: all he is anxious for, according to this detestable theory, is that he should strike a blow somewhere.
The Atonementhas but to be studied in order to be rejected.
The whole tendency of the Broad Church stream of thought was to increase the manhood at the expense of the deity of Christ; and with hell and atonement gone, and inspiration everywhere, there appeared no raison d'etre for the Incarnation.
The Atonementteaches men to crouch at the feet of God, instead of raising loving, joyful faces to meet his radiant smile; it shuts out his sunshine from us, and veils us in the night of an impenetrable dread.
And the voice again came forth, and bade me keep the crown that I had gained, as the sole atonement for the past.
Job's friends sat 7 days and 7 nights, and offered 7 bullocks and 7 rams, as an atonement for their wickedness.
With the forgiveness of sin, atonement is indissolubly connected.
The atonement cannot exceed the comprehension of the covenant for the ratification of which it was effected.
Indeed, the atonement was devised and effected in order to the deliverance of the elect alone.
Had the atonement been found for two, accordingly two would have been delivered.
The reason for giving deliverance therefore was, that an atonement was found.
Where the blood was not sprinkled, sin was not put away, and no atonement was made.
And only for the ratification of that Covenant, the atonement was designed.
The atonementand intercession of Christ lie at the foundation of the sinner's hope of acceptance and enjoyment of the favour of God.
Where the blood was sprinkled, and accordingly sin was representatively put away, atonement was always effected.
But if the children of the covenant, as is admitted, are only a given specified number of the human family, then must the atonement of the Mediator be restricted to them.
