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redemption from sin and misery. Atonement [expiation] or pro- pitiation (iXafffjjbg) and u<xoXvrpu<sig, redemption , are fundamentally one single benefit and no more, namely, the restoration of the lost sinner. This is an exceedingly commensurate and pure idea, and adequately corresponds to the name Jesus. Redemp- tion lias regard to enemies (and on this point the positive theology of Koenig distinctly treats in the passage where he discusses Redemption ), and reconciliation refers to God ; and here, again, there is a difference between the words iXaffpog and %uruXXuyr\. T Xuepbg, propitiation takes away the offence against God: xaraXXuyri may be viewed from two sides; it removes (a) God's indignation against us, 2 Cor. v. 19 ; (/3) and our alienation from God, 2 Cor. v. 20. — sv XpierGj ’iqtrbv, in Christ Jesus ) It is not without good reason that the name Christ is sometimes put before Jesus. According to the Old Testament [From Old Testament point of view], progress is made from the knowledge of Christ to the knowledge of Jesus ; in the experience of pre- sent faith [From the New Testament point of view, the progress is] from the knowledge of Jesus to the knowledge of Christ. Comp. 1 Tim. i. 15, notes.
25. nposdsro) hath set forth before the eyes of all. Luke ii. 31. The Kpb in rrpotkro does not carry with it the idea of time, but is much the same as the Latin proponere, to set forth. — iXuerripm, a propitiatory [Eng. vers, not so strictly, “ propitiation”^) The allusion is to the mercy-seat [propitiatory] of the Old Testament, Heb. ix. 5 ; and it is by this Greek term that the lxx generally express the Hebrew m22, Ex. xxv. 17—22. Propitiation goes on the supposition of a previous offence, which opposes the opinion of the Socinians. — h r& uvrov di^an, in His own blood ) This blood is truly propitiatory. Comp. Lev. xvi. 2, 13, etc. — tig evdti^iv rtjg dr/.cuoff\jvr}g uvrov, to the declaration of [for the de* monstration of] His righteousness ) This is repeated in the fol- lowing verse, as if it were after a parenthesis, for the purpose of continuing the train of thought; only that instead of hg, Latin in, there is used in the following verse vpog, ad, which implies a something more immediate,1 ch. xv. 2. Eph. iv. 12. — hdsi^iv
1 slg , towards , with a view to; Tp6s,for> with the effect of. — Ed.