| In an expiatory sacrifice the blood which is shed is regarded as wiping out a transgression. |
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| Accordingly, he sees storytelling festivals as large expiatory and redemptory rituals of an almost religious kind. |
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| He died in his forties in a sanitarium, unvisited by Eugene, who, twenty years later, wrote this expiatory play. |
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| The old god appeared to carry away with him various weaknesses and fulfilled the role of an expiatory victim and scapegoat. |
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| We would never conceive that an expiatory debt, as serious as it may be, does not have an end. |
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| This beautiful label manages to harmonise the history of the brand with that of the expiatory temple. |
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| This requirement, which is addressed to all and not to certain expiatory victims, is much more difficult than a sudden, violent death. |
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| Pilgrims would go up to the Temple in order to bring offerings or else to have sacrifices offered such as thanksgiving or expiatory sacrifices. |
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| From the communion sacrifice Smith derived the expiatory or propitiatory forms of sacrifice, which he termed piaculum, and the gift sacrifice. |
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| The death of Christ is substitutionary and expiatory, reconciling and transforming. |
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| His angels will then «gather His saints together to Him, those that have made a covenant with Him by sacrifice», that is, His expiatory death on the cross. |
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| What important ideas should govern thinking about it: expiatory sacrifice, ransom from slavery, feudal satisfaction, legal justification, exemplary action? |
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| Basically a vegetation ritual onto which an expiatory rite was grafted, the festival was named after the first fruits, or the first bread from the new wheat. |
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| The East does not recognize the purifying and expiatory suffering of souls in the afterlife, but it does acknowledge various levels of beatitude and of suffering in the intermediate state. |
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| But also look at St. Michael's Chapel. This expiatory chapel was built over an underground cellar by the Lord Hacqueville after he had had his wife executed on this very spot. |
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| He strikes me as being a great reformer unjustly sentenced to death, expiatory victim of the ignorance of man and the blind stupidity of the crowd. |
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| We know of similar phenomena from the life of Blessed Myriam of Abellin, a Carmelite who sometimes also had to endure expiatory possession before receiving exceptional graces. |
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