The English phrase, “the atonement,” is found but once in the New Testament (A.V.), namely, in Romans 5:11. The passage with its context runs as follows:—
“When we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. But God commendeth his love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. For if while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more being reconciled we shall be saved by his life. And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement” (verses 6–11).
In the margin here the alternative “reconciliation” is given for “atonement” in the text; and in the Revised Version “reconciliation” has been put in the text, thus harmonising the context, and leaving that term “reconciliation” as the sole English representative of the original Greek word Katallagee, the only occurrences of which in the N.T. are the following:—Rom. 5:11:11:15; 2 Corinthians 5:18, 19.
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Author: C. C. Walker
Keywords: Christus Victor, Atonement, Representative, Participatory Atonement, Jesus atonement, Representative atonement, Christ's sacrifice, Jesus sacrifice, Died for our sins, Jesus as substitute, Substitute, Substitution, Substitutionary, Substitutionary death, Replacement, Jesus death, Christ's death, Propitiation, ransom, ransom theory, at one ment, reconciliation, penal substitution, satisfaction theory
Bible reference(s): Exodus 29:33, Exodus 29:36, Exodus 29:37, Exodus 30:10, Exodus 30:12, Exodus 30:15, Exodus 30:16, Exodus 32:30, Leviticus 1:4, Leviticus 4:20, Leviticus 4:26, Leviticus 4:31, Leviticus 4:35, Leviticus 5:6, Leviticus 5:10, Leviticus 5:13, Leviticus 5:16, Leviticus 5:18, Leviticus 6:7, Leviticus 7:7, Leviticus 8:34, Leviticus 9:7, Leviticus 10:17, Leviticus 12:7, Leviticus 12:8, Leviticus 14:18, Leviticus 14:19, Leviticus 14:20, Leviticus 14:21, Leviticus 14:29, Leviticus 14:31, Leviticus 14:53, Leviticus 15:15, Leviticus 15:30, Leviticus 16:6, Leviticus 16:10, Leviticus 16:11, Leviticus 16:16, Leviticus 16:17, Leviticus 16:18, Leviticus 16:24, Leviticus 16:27, Leviticus 16:30, Leviticus 16:32, Leviticus 16:33, Leviticus 16:34, Leviticus 17:11, Leviticus 19:22, Leviticus 23:27, Leviticus 23:28, Leviticus 25:9, Numbers 3:49, Numbers 5:8, Numbers 6:11, Numbers 8:12, Numbers 8:19, Numbers 8:21, Numbers 15:25, Numbers 15:28, Numbers 16:46, Numbers 16:47, Numbers 25:13, Numbers 28:22, Numbers 28:30, Numbers 29:5, Numbers 29:11, Numbers 31:50, 2 Samuel 21:3, 1 Chronicles 6:49, 2 Chronicles 29:24, Nehemiah 10:33, Psalms 49:7, Psalms 49:8, Matthew 20:28, Mark 10:45, John 3:16, John 15:13, Romans 3:25, Romans 4:25, Romans 5:11, Romans 8:23, Ephesians 1:7, Colossians 1:14, 1 Timothy 2:6, Hebrews 9:12, Hebrews 9:15, Hebrews 9:22, 1 John 2:2, 1 John 4:10, 1 John 4:19, Revelation 5:9, Revelation 14:3, Revelation 14:4, Wisdom of Solomon 18:21, Sirach/Ecclesiasticus 3:3, Sirach/Ecclesiasticus 3:30, Sirach/Ecclesiasticus 5:5, Sirach/Ecclesiasticus 35:3, 2 Maccabees 3:33
Source: “The Atonement,” The Christadelphian, Vol. 66, No. 776, 1929.
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