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pitiatory sacrifice, Gen. 4:4
(cf. Heb. 11:4). It appe
blood on the people, on the b
tabernacle and the vessels of th
Covenant was ratified at Sinai
peared on the door-post of e
Egypt on the memorable night
that stricken land (Exo. 12:22).
ceremonial cleansings of the Old 2
in the Cup sanctified by the lips of our Lord at the Last
Supper (Matt. 26:28). It appear in the fullness of its
efficacy when Christ bled and died on the Cross, thus
ratifying the New Covenant and at the same time abrogating
the Old (Heb. 9:11 ff., Col. 3:13-15). From that
day to this it has appeared in many parts of the world in
the Memorial Feast appointed for God’s saints to keep,
“the communion of the blood and of the body of Christ”
(1 Cor. 10:16). That Christ died is a fact of history:
that He died for our sins is a fact of revelation (1 Cor.
15:3).
These fundamental truths have been proclaimed by a19
who are worthy of the name Christian, in all ages of the
Christian era. Yet they are being challenged in our day
by the atheists, agnostics, positivists, demythologizers, and
analytical critics, and indeed all the nitpicking self -styled
Yntellectuals.” The doctrine has been assailed in all agesby
bitter opponents of the Faith-as “vulgar,” “barbaric,”
a fantasy of man’s wishful thinking, and the like. The
only efficacy of our Lord’s ministry, we are told, if any
at all, is that of the power of His example. His death
thus becomes only a martyrdom, and the doctrine of the
Atonement is thrown profanely out of the window. This
is all very soothing, of course, to the “I-love-me” spirit
thzt is so prominent in the human makeup. This is an
age in which intellectual pomposity is going its merry way.
Let me say here that if there is anything in this world that
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