009:017 For a will is in force where there has been death, for it
is never in force while he who made it lives.
009:018 Therefore even the first covenant has not been dedicated
without blood.
009:019 For when every commandment had been spoken by Moses to all
the people according to the law, he took the blood of the calves
and the goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop,
and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,
009:020 saying, "This is the blood of the covenant which God has
commanded you."{Exodus 24:8}
009:021 Moreover he sprinkled the tabernacle and all the vessels
of the ministry in like manner with the blood.
009:022 According to the law, nearly everything is cleansed with blood,
and apart from shedding of blood there is no remission.
009:023 It was necessary therefore that the copies of the things
in the heavens should be cleansed with these; but the heavenly
things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
009:024 For Christ hasn't entered into holy places made with hands,
which are representations of the true, but into heaven itself,
now to appear in the presence of God for us;
009:025 nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest
enters into the holy place year by year with blood not his own,
009:026 or else he must have suffered often since the foundation
of the world. But now once at the end of the ages, he has
been revealed to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
009:027 Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once,
and after this, judgment,
009:028 so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many,
will appear a second time, without sin, to those who are
eagerly waiting for him for salvation.
010:001 For the law, having a shadow of the good to come, not the very
image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices
year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect
those who draw near.
010:002 Or else wouldn't they have ceased to be offered,
because the worshippers, having been once cleansed,
would have had no more consciousness of sins?
010:003 But in those sacrifices there is yearly reminder of sins.
010:004 For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should
take away sins.
010:005 Therefore when he comes into the world, he says, "Sacrifice and
offering you didn't desire, but you prepared a body for me;
010:006 You had no pleasure in whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin.
010:007 Then I said, 'Behold, I have come (in the scroll of the book
it is written of me) to do your will, O God.'"{Psalm 40:6-8}
010:008 Previously saying, "Sacrifices and offerings and whole
burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you didn't desire,
neither had pleasure in them" (those which are offered
according to the law),
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