Assertion: scapegoat | /r/HasProperty | set free
Facets:
value: without punishment
type: MANNER
value: in the original ceremony
type: TEMPORAL
value: in the desert
type: LOCATION
Source sentences:
text: The point of the whole ceremony seems to have been that as the scapegoat was set free in the desert, so Israel was to be set free from the offenses contracted in its desert life within the domain of the god of the desert.
text: But there are other differences as well: in the biblical story the scapegoat is not a member of the group (it is a goat after all), the actor whose attention is being diverted is strictly speaking God, not the group, the scapegoat is not punished but set free.
text: The irony here is that in the original ceremony the "scapegoat" was set free without punishment, while modern "scapegoats" endure all the punishment deserved by others.