A SUMMARY OF THE SCRIPTURAL CATEGORIES OF CHRIST’S CROSS WORK The expiation of their sins through the obedient sacrifice of himself in their stead, the satisfying of divine justice and thereby the propitiation of divine wrath respecting them, the removal of the divine alienation toward them (reconciliation), their redemption from the curse of the law and the power and fruitlessness of sin, and the destruction of the kingdom of evil which held them as captives and slaves—these are the accomplishments