you and your friend were running late to math class in school you did not say to your friend, “We are going to be late, and the teacher is going to be mad; so we’d better find a way to make propitiation.” We don’t talk that way. But this word is a very important word in the Bible; so let’s camp out on it for a moment. Propitiation is a word that means “to appease someone’s wrath.” In ancient Greek mythology, the gods were capricious and easily angered by humans. Humans sought to appease that anger