“25- Whom God hath set forth
to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness
for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; 26- To declare, I say, at this
time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which
believeth in Jesus.”(Romans 3:25- 26)
Propitiation means “the act of
propitiating or appeasing a god, spirit, or person. Atonement, especially that
of Christ” (Google) Matthew Henry
wrote; The doctrine of his gospel, and the comforts of his Spirit, are
very refreshing to them, and they rest in his love; none of all the delights of
sense are comparable to the spiritual pleasure they have in meditating on
Christ and enjoying him. There is a complicated sweetness in Christ and an
abundance of it; there is a bundle of myrrh and a cluster of
camphire. We are not straitened in him whom there is all fulness.
The word translated camphire is copher, the same word that
signifies atonement or propitiation. Christ is a cluster
of merit and righteousness to all believers; therefore he is dear to
them because he is the propitiation for their sins.” (The Bible Collection,) Jesus is the one who appeased God through His
death and no one else.
“And he is the propitiation for our
sins: and not for our's only, but also for the sins of the whole world.”
(I John 2:2)
