a stain or reproach (Job 31:7; Pr 9:7). To blot out sin is to forgive it (Ps 51:1,9; Isa 44:22; Ac 3:19). Christ's blotting out the handwriting of ordinances was his fulfilling the law in our behalf (Col 2:14).
Repent then, and turn to have your sins blotted out, so that a breathing-space may be vouchsafed you,
He cancelled the regulations that stood against us ??all these obligations he set aside when he nailed them to the cross,