A stain or reproach (
Job 31:7
;
Proverbs 9:7
). To blot out sin is to forgive it (
Psalm 51:1
, 9;
Isaiah 44:22
;
Acts 3:19
). Christ's blotting out the handwriting of ordinances was his fulfilling the law in our behalf (
Colossians 2:14
).
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