This gesture was to make up for his failure to go on crusade during his lifetime and atone for his sins, not least the sacrilegious murder of John Comyn in the Greyfriars church, Dumfries.

* The murder cross, erected in medieval times to commemorate / atone for a highway murder and source of many apocryphal mythical stories.

According to biblical scholars, this ritual derives from the same origin as the ritual described in Deuteronomy for a group of people to atone for murder by an unknown perpetrator, according to which a heifer is killed at a stream, and hands are washed over it ; biblical scholars believe that these are both ultimately cases of sympathetic magic, and similar rituals existed in Greek and Roman mythology.

* Helena, mother of Constantine I, tells him that he must atone for executing his son and wife by building churches.

Moral truth cannot be gleaned because Ambrosio was destroyed by spiritual beings, and no earthly being can sufficiently oppose the “ power and cunning of supernatural beings .” Scenes of grotesquery and horror abound, which are a proof of “ a low and vulgar taste .” The character of Ambrosio is “ impossible ... contrary to nature .” Coleridge argues that the most “ grievous fault ... for which no literary excellence can atone ” is that “ our author has contrived to make of enchantments and witchcraft ‘ ‘ pernicious ’ ‘, by blending, with an irreverent negligence, all that is most awfully true in religion with all that is most ridiculously absurd in superstition ,” commenting with the immortal line that “ the Monk is a romance, which if a parent saw in the hands of a son or daughter, he might reasonably turn pale .” Coleridge finishes the piece by explaining that he was “ induced to pay particular attention to this work, from the unusual success which it has experienced ” and that “ the author is a man of rank and fortune.

The novel contains two stories: that of the monstrous father and that of the son ’ s trying to atone for his father ’ s evil and, ultimately, reconciling with his family ’ s history.

It is later revealed that Reese's birthname was Jesse Hawke, son of crime boss Al Hawke, who became a police officer to atone for his family's sins.

His stricken wife, who knew him well, would later write to her son that he could only have killed himself in order to atone for a wrong which could not be atoned for otherwise-which is precisely the truth, though his grieving family members, not having shared his change of heart about the Blacks, do not realise that this was indeed the specific terrible wrong he sought to atone for.

The oracle of Apollo then instructed them to atone for their error and rid themselves of their suffering by honouring the poet, which led to the shrine being dedicated to him.

Since it was regarded as the highest blessing to have many children, legitimate wives often gave their maids to their husbands to atone, at least in part, if they were barren, as in the cases of Sarah and Hagar, Rachel and Bilhah.

According to Christian writers, most notably Paul, the Bible teaches that people are, in their current state, sinful, and the New Testament reveals that Jesus is both the Son of man and the Son of God, united in the hypostatic union, God the Son, God made incarnate ; that Jesus ' death by crucifixion was a sacrifice to atone for all humanity's sins, and that acceptance of Jesus as Savior and Lord saves one from Divine Judgment, giving Eternal life.

Since Sima did not have enough money to atone his " crime ", he chose the latter and was then thrown into prison, where he endured three years.

Haiti was required to pay an indemnity of 150, 000, 000 francs to France in order to atone for the loss suffered by the French slave owners.

Dodd argued that in pagan Greek the translation of hilasterion was indeed to propitiate, but that in the Septuagint ( the oldest Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament ) that kapporeth ( Hebrew for " atone ") is often translated with words that mean " to cleanse or remove " ( Dodd, " The Bible and the Greeks ", p 93 ).

It is implied that before his imprisonment he was in some ways crueler and more blind to his flaws, and much of The Sandman is focused on Morpheus ' desire to atone for his past behavior ( e. g., helping past lovers Calliope and Nada ).

These five helped Cadmus to found the city of Thebes, but Cadmus was forced to be a slave to Ares for one year to atone for killing the dragon.

The sin sacrifice was inadequate to atone for a transgression committed intentionally.

Reading Jane's diaries and letters, Carlyle was struck by her unhappiness and his own irritability and inconsideration for her, and he decided to atone by writing her a memorial.

The spirit relays how he, in his own mind as Paul, formed the idea that Jesus ' mission was about his death ; a blood sacrifice that would atone for sin in order to save mankind.

The fish told the Buddhist that it wanted to atone for a crime committed when it was a human.

The two great truths which from the day of our conversion to the day we enter into heaven the Lord teaches those who shall be saved are in reference to ourselves that we are poor, lost, helpless sinners, who, if left to themselves, must perish for ever, and in reference to God, that out of boundless compassion He has sent His only begotten Son into the world to atone for the guilt of all who should believe in Him, and then in this glorious Saviour more-infinitely more-has been brought back to all who believe in Him, than ever was lost by Adam's transgression and our own sin.

Eve's final appearance in the series was in the episode " Path of Vengeance " in which she returns to the land of Varia's Amazon tribe in order to atone for her attack on them six years prior.

The Chief was given a new body by Will Magnus, but to atone for his sins, Caulder ripped his head off the body and was kept in cryogenic storage.

Some have contended that the doctrine of particular redemption implies that Christ's sacrifice was insufficient to atone for the sins of the whole world, but Calvinists have universally rejected this notion, instead holding that the value of the atonement is infinite but that God intentionally withholds its efficacious availability only to the elect.

Because agency would allow all people to fall in sin, a Savior was necessary to atone for the sins of each person so that they could return to live with their " Father in Heaven.

They tell Electra and Orestes that their mother received just punishment but that their matricide was still a shameful act, and they instruct the siblings on what they must do to atone and purge their souls of the crime.

To atone for his crime he " took the cross " ( went on a Pilgrimage ), and was pardoned by the king.

Critical response was mostly negative, and as one critic very harshly put it, “ Mr. Stone did what he could to atone for the injury which he had inflicted upon the world by the production of this play.

It has been suggested that the R & B influence on the album was an attempt to atone for his comments, but as Costello writes in the liner notes for the 2002 Rhino version,

Chris and Annie will meet again in their new lives, but Annie must atone for killing herself — her new incarnation will die young, and Chris will spend the remainder of his new life as a widower before the two are once again reunited in Heaven.

In the Divine Comedy, Dante meets Manfred outside the gates of Purgatory, where the spirit explains that, although he repented of his sins in articulo mortis, he must atone for his contumacy by waiting 30 years for each year he lived as an excommunicate, before being admitted to Purgatory proper.

Keen to quickly atone for her disappointing performances at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games, Sonia O ' Sullivan competed in her first indoor competition for five years at the IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics in Paris in March 1997.

He painted saints in order to atone for his earlier sins, and renounced his earlier lifestyle, equating sexuality with sin and renouncing tobacco and alcohol during his years in the asylum.

The Amir-ul-umra, out of the considerations of policy and for the general good, sent a letter full of admonitions ... reminding Ranjit Singh that there was yet time to secure pardon through submission, and to atone for his past error by loyal service, without dragging several thousand men to their destruction.

The Orthodox study session on sacrifices in the daily morning service has been replaced with the Talmudic passages teaching that deeds of loving-kindness now atone for sin.

Such being the case, how are We to save the millions of Our subjects, or to atone Ourselves before the hallowed spirits of Our Imperial Ancestors?

: No man shall be at liberty to come into our streets, to threaten us with mobs, for if he does, he shall atone for it before he leaves the place, neither shall he be at liberty, to vilify and slander any of us, for suffer it we will not in this place.

To atone, Meg is sent back to help him fulfill his ' wish list '- a list of past regrets that he wants to correct before he passes on.

Doctor Reid also reveals herself to be the granddaughter of the original Hush-Nora Elliot before her marriage -, seeking to atone for her grandfather's sins.

" The six hundred could not atone to Lever for the lassitude of prolonged exile.

On the other hand, the king might also be designated to suffer and atone for his people, meaning that the sacral king could be the pre-ordained victim of a human sacrifice, either regularly killed at the end of his term in the position, or sacrificed in times of crisis ( e. g. Domalde ).

After recovering his sanity, Hercules deeply regretted his actions ; he was purified by King Thespius, then traveled to Delphi to inquire how he could atone for his actions.

All for sin could not atone ;

Högni, however, declared that nothing could atone the betrayal that Hedinn had committed.

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