The expiating blood has soothed the ulcerated conscience, so that it no longer stings and burns.
But God will put everything to rights, when we will have finished expiating our faults.
We are expiatingour faults terribly; but the Germans' turn will come.
A whole nation is at this moment expiating the decadence and the downfall of the Court of Vienna.
It was celebrated on Church festivals, especially at Easter; and, although it was not proclaimed a matter of duty or necessity, it was always regarded as one of the most acceptable modes of expiating past sins.
Then said the mother, "Let him alone, it is a poor sinner who is expiating his crime.
The old man raised himself and told them how he, by one single word, had so sinned that God was angry with him, and how he was now expiating this crime.
He takes the sins and remorse of the guilty, and leaves them with expiating tribute at the feet of the averted Deity.
We announce no deity coming from heaven, putting on the frail existence of humanity, and expiating on the cross the sin which had closed all access to peace.
Aren't you half expiating your crime by facing the suffering?
I am not thinking of it and I am not thinking of expiating it, and why are you all rubbing it in on all sides?
But still Aaron and his sons needed expiating blood; for before they could offer the sacrifices of the day for the people, they are ordered yet again first of all to offer a sin-offering for themselves.
Surely, as forgiven; for the sins which he symbolically carries are those very sins of the bygone year for which expiating blood had just been offered and accepted in the Holy of Holies.
These three unanimously agreed in proposing a monastic state, as affording the best opportunities for expiating his crimes.
I rejoice in what has befallen me as the means of expiating my past sins.
At that time the news of the fall of Edessa was fresh in Europe; and Louis, in the vain hope of expiating his crime, determined to promote a crusade, and lead his forces himself to the aid of Jerusalem.
He said he had committed a great sin, but that he hoped and believed that he was now expiating it, and that it would be forgiven.
Michael believed he wasexpiating the sin of loving another man's wife.
On the sofa lay curled the figure of a man breathing heavily, and, to judge by the spirit-bottle and glasses on the table at his hand, expiating a carouse by a disturbed and feverished slumber.
A great wind from outside of the precipice kept the flames from raging beyond the path; and in the midst of the fire went spirits expiating the sin of Incontinence.
The Abbe de St. Yves was expiating the wrongs he had done his sister at her feet, and she pardoned him.
Expiating those sins according to the ordinances laid down for them, one should not again indulge in them.
That man who, having knowingly committed sin, acts righteously for expiating that sin, has to enjoy and endure the fruits of his good and bad acts separately.
All who came to him to confess great sins, were allowed but one means of expiating their crimes,—crossing the sea to fight against the infidels.
The sinner would gladly suffer death, that, expiating his crimes, he may hope to be forgiven by his Maker.
Moellner," said the beautiful woman, drawing her breath with effort, "at this moment I am expiating all the sins I have ever committed.
To-day I am what I am, simply and solely in the hope of expiating the sin of my youth.
Fratricidal strife ensued, and one brother spent the dismal residue of his days in the penitentiary, expiating the murder of the other.
But how can I ever expect to turn my thoughts towards expiating a crime which scarcely awakens in me the smallest remorse?
X-33] Blood-drawing was the favorite and most common mode of expiating sin and showing devotion.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "expiating" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
