himself, repays the one whom he has injured plus an added fifth, and ‘makes a plain confession of the wrong he has committed’. The true advocate for forgiveness is ‘soul-felt conviction’ on the part of the worshipper (Spec. Laws 1.235–7). Atonement requires both ‘prayers and sacrifices to propitiate the Deity’ (Moses 2.147). The sacrifice represents the sanctification of ‘the mind of the worshipper’ (Spec. Laws 1.203). Those who participate are thus ‘changing their way for the better’ (1.227). In
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