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Before examining the doctrine of the atonement, Leighton Pullman provides two chapters of introduction; the first on sin, the second on Jesus Christ. He then traces the atonement through the Old Testament, the Synoptic Gospels, the writings of St. John, the primitive Jewish Christian teachings (as taught by St. Paul), and the Epistle to the Hebrews.

account to show them that he acknowledges the wrong, and with the hope that the thousand pieces of silver may be ‘a covering for the eyes.’ That is, the present is intended to make them blind to the mistake which has occurred. But the word here employed for ‘covering’ is not a form of the word Kipper. This word had already gained a more metaphorical significance. Consequently its occurrence in Genesis 32:20 does not warrant us to say clearly that it there signifies a covering. It may rather signify
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