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Vocabulary for Lesson 7 (Vocab Quiz/Test 2d)
Write each bold word in the Vocabulary section of your notebook with room for a 2-3 line definition.
- Pontius Pilate
- The Roman official under whose authority Jesus was sentenced to death.
- Lamb of God (or the Agnus Dei
- The title that names Jesus as the sacrifice for all sin, whose blood was shed to propitiate (or satisfy) God's wrath. This title designates Him as the sin bearer for the whole world, the true Passover Lamb, and the One to whom all the bloody sacrifices of the Old Testament point. This name, in Latin, is the title of the fifth great hymn of the Divine Service and comes from the words of John the Baptist which announced Jesus' ministry: "Behold! [The One] who takes away the sin of the world!" (John 1:29).
- redemption (verb: to redeem)
- The work of Christ, or the payment He made, "to purchase" our release from sin, death, and the power of the devil.
- vicarious atonement (or substitutionary atonement)
- The satisfaction that Christ made for the sins of the world by suffering the condemnation of the Law and dying in the place of sinful man.
- the blessed exchange (or objective justification)
- That in the death of Jesus the sins of the whole world were charged to His account, in order that His righteousness might be credited to the world.
- the righteousness of God
- That God the Father offered up His Son in payment for man's sin. Christ's obedient sacrifice and payment for sin in His death upon the cross whereby He fulfilled the whole will and Law of God in our place (see Romans 1:16-17; and 3:21-26).