pre-intimated by the bloody offerings enjoined in this Hebrew system? Argumentatively, it would seem that these great questions are decided forever by the following considerations: 1. If the bloody sacrifices of this ancient system do not set forth the atoning death of Christ, they mean nothing; this, or nothing at all. 2. The writer to the Hebrew Christians testifies that they mean this. To give the proof of this statement in full would repeat entire the seventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth chapters of this epistle. It would be idle to say that this writer does not refer to the sacrificial system of ancient Israel; equally idle to claim that he does not speak of the bloody death of Christ; more than idle to deny that in his view that old system sought to illustrate this new one――those bloody scenes were foreshadowing pre-intimations of Christ’s death; that those priests were precursors of this greater High Priest; that the blood which Aaron bore once a year into the most holy place meant neither more nor less than that Jesus was in his time to enter once for all into a yet more holy place with his own blood and thus achieve for us eternal redemption. Jesus “needed not daily as did those priests to offer sacrifice, first for his own sins and then for the people’s; for this he did once” [for all] “when he offered up himself” (Heb. 7: 27). 3. All the New Testament writers were Jews; men of Jewish education, men of life-long training in religious ideas based on this Hebrew sacrificial system. They never speak of the purpose or results of Christ’s death save in terms and phrases taken from this system given through Moses. Jesus never speaks of his own death save in these same words and phrases. When he speaks of “giving his life a ransom for many” (Mat. 20: 28); when he said, “This is my blood of the New Testament which is shed for many for the remission of sins” (Mat. 26: 28); when his great forerunner speaks of him as “the Lamb of God who taketh away the sin of the world” (Jno. 1: 29);――or Peter (1 Eps. 2: 24) as “bearing our sins in his own body on the tree;” or Paul (2 Cor. 5: 21) as being “made a sin-offering for us that we might be made the righteousness of God in him,” it is simply impossible to disprove the reference of these terms and phrases to the Mosaic system――impossible to give them any other sense than that which is illustrated in the bloody death of the sin-offerings and burnt-offerings of that ancient law.