It was the meaning carried by the last two words--the meaning unfolded in the theory of substitutionary expiation--which had the moral motive in it to draw Paul into union with his Lord in life and death.
He grants that we have in Paul 'the theory of a substitutionary expiation.
If Christ had no substitutionary office, the ordering of his sufferings on the part of God was manifest injustice.
He came to the conclusion that the sacrificial meal was not the primary element, but that there was a substitutionary value in the offering.
As will be seen below, Pfleiderer declares the Pauline doctrine to be that of substitutionary suffering.
So, whatever sand others may bring to starving human souls, let us bring to them the wheat of the gospel--the substitutionary atonement of Jesus Christ.
This always had in it the idea of reparation for wrong-doing by substitutionary suffering.
The sufferings of the righteous were recognized in Rabbinical Judaism as having a substitutionary significance for the sins of others; see Weber, Altsynagog.
Donaldson, 'Expiatory and Substitutionary Sacrifices of the Greeks,' in Trans.
Footnote 46: Donaldson, 'Expiatory andSubstitutionary Sacrifices of the Greeks,' in Transactions Roy.
Let us then not forget that the presentation unto God of an expiation for sin, accomplished by the death of an appointed substitutionary victim, was in Israel made an indispensable condition of the pardon of sin.
These are days when many, who would yet be called Christians, belittle atonement, and deny the necessity of the shedding of substitutionary blood for our salvation.
The substitutionary sacrifice of Jesus Christ is the great inspiration of emotional religion.
The doctrine of the substitutionary atonement, like that of the divinity of Christ, appears to have been an after-growth of Christianity, the foundations of both being laid in pre-Christian Paganism.
Evidently here is the notion of a substitutionary offering, although the reason given is not the true reason.
Is it any more than an illustration of His substitutionary work, one instance out of many of His habit of self-devotion in the room of others?
So that even if we cannot take this scene in the garden as an exact representation of the whole substitutionary work of Christ, we can say that by suffering with and for us He has saved us from sin and restored us to life and to God.
Words used in all simplicity by the ancient writers must have attached to them the definite polemical meaning they hold in the quarrels of theologians, before they can be strained into supporting a substitutionary atonement.
Roman Catholics and Protestants, at the time of the Reformation, alike believed in the vicarious and substitutionary character of the atonement wrought by Christ.
The reviewer is far from saying that a writer who finds a substitutionary doctrine throughout the New Testament is altogether wrong.
This was the basis of fact on which the substitutionary character of Christ's sufferings and death in the Atonement was asserted.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "substitutionary" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
