is not the effect of a sacrifice. But the Scriptures often speak of the distant end of Christ’s death as well as its immediate one. We are reconciled to God by the death of his Son in order that we should be holy. Propitiation is for holiness. Therefore Titus 2:14 says, “who gave himself for us to redeem us from all wickedness and to purify for himself a people that are his very own, eager to do what is good.” In many other passages sanctification is said to be the end for which Christ died. There