the nature of the atonement or propitiation in the old dispensation, it was something contemplated as appeasing or satisfying, or at least in some way affecting God so as to make Him willing, or render it possible for Him, to enter into, or abide in, gracious relationswith men. In one passage in the OT where “reconciliation” occurs (2 Ch 29:24) it represents a different Heb word, but here RV has changed it into “sin-offering,” which is in harmony with the general meaning and usage of the Heb.