The last thing I want to do is to give the impression that the doctrine of propitiation depends on four verses. The fact is, propitiation permeates Scripture; that is, in addition to those four specific verses, many other passages speak of propitiation, even though they do not actually use the word itself. I don‟t mean to imply that propitiation is an aside in these many passages, but, even it were, it is undoubtedly the case that even where a truth does appear in Scripture indirectly – as an aside, so to speak – that passage immediately becomes a more powerful testimony of the truth. With that in mind, let us look at some of the other places in Scripture where propitiation, though as a word it is absent from the passage, actually undergirds the argument. Notice that. We really are talking about a scriptural argument, not just what we might call „the accident of words‟, or a few proof-texts. It is the argument which is the context, and it is, therefore, the argument that must determine the interpretation. In what follows, it is the argument, the context, that we must look for. |