Once again the theme of God's grace permeates this passage, for though 'all have sinned' and fallen short of God's GLORY, He has provided for us a righteousness through faith in our awsome Saviour! Interestingly this justification has a forensic element to it in that it means to aquit or to declare righteous (the opposite of being condemned), to the praise of His glory!!
The commentators tell me that the Greek for 'sacrifice of atonement' speaks of a sacrifice that satisfies the righteous wrath of God ; praise the Lord for His awesome mercy even to me!! Apparently the Greek for 'Sacrifice of atonement' can be rendered 'propitiation' which is a noun used elsewhere in the NT only in Hebrews 9:5 for the mercy seat of the tabernacle's ark of the covenant. Here a goats blood was sprinkled on the Dat of Atonement to cover Israel's sins in order to satisfy God for another year. I think it's amazing how the OT sacrifices were continually pointing to the ultimate sacrifice of Jesus !!
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