The next day he saw Jesus coming to him and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world! John 1:29 NASB Takes Away– “Take up and carry”? Or, maybe, “carry off.” The Greek verb, aíro, can mean either. “Whether the sense in Jn. 1:29 is ‘to take up and carry,’ i.e., in a…
For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood by reason of the life that makes atonement. Leviticus 17:11 NASB Atonement – Tim Hegg’s summary of the scholarly work on the critical Hebrew…
On the next day Moses said to the people, “You yourselves have committed a great sin; and now I am going up to the LORD, perhaps I can make atonement for your sin.” Exodus 32:30 NASB Make atonement – God is never appeased! Appeasement is demanded by pagan deities, not by YHWH. Why? Because appeasement…
