The professor sees in his pupil a chance to expiate past sins. |
But, whoever may have been the author, pains were taken to expiate the sacrilege. |
A Eucharistic soul is necessarily always a priestly soul, especially if the person is consumed with desires to expiate and to sacrifice. |
This is not simply the story of a gentle, deluded old man whose attempts to expiate his guilt were poorly judged. |
If you got involved in some crime and you had to expiate your sins, you didn't go to the local courts, you went to the local priest and you made an appropriate offering. |
The greater sinfulness of man is why Christ was born a man: to expiate the sin of the first man. |