PROPITIATION
In the process of satisfying justice
and reconciling man to God in matters of sin and transgression, some payment or
ransom had to be offered for human errors. A propitiation is that
appeasement or agreed-upon peace offering, a role only Jesus was pure enough
and willing enough to play.
ROMANS 3:25; 1 JOHN 2:2; 4:10 (Jeffrey
R. Holland, Witness for His Names [Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2019], 124,
italics in original)