I. The Wrath Of God In The New Testament
CHAPTER VI
PROPITIATION (2)
IN THE PRECEDING CHAPTER we noted that there are four passages in the New Testament which are specially important for an understanding of propitiation, but that is not to say that we have exhausted the concept of propitiation when we have examined them. In the New Testament, as in the Old, a good deal depends upon our conception of the place and nature of the wrath of God. If this wrath is regarded as a very real factor so that the sinner is exposed to its severity, then the removal of the wrath will be an important part of our understanding of salvation; whereas if we diminish the part played by the divine wrath we shall not find it necessary to think seriously of propitiation. Accordingly we begin our discussion of the New Testament teaching on this subject by examining those passages where the wrath of God is mentioned.