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1 For the law being only an allusion to a future dispensation that was more excellent, and not an exact imitation of such a state, cannot by the anniversary sacrifices, which are offered, entirely purify those that present themselves.
2 for then they would not have been repeated, because they who sacrificed being once purified, would not have been conscious of wanting any further atonement for their sins:
3 whereas their annual sacrifices were accompanied with an anniversary commemoration of their sins.
4 And indeed it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats, should take away the guilt of sin.
5 wherefore at his appearing in publick, he saith, "sacrifice and offering thou wouldst not, but a body hast thou prepared me:
6 in burnt-offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure:
7 then said I, lo I come, as in the volume of the book it is written of me, to do thy will, O God."
8 after having said, "victims, oblations, holocausts, and sacrifice for sin, thou wouldst not, neither hadst pleasure therein," tho' they are all prescrib'd by the law;
9 he immediately adds, "lo, I come to do thy WILL, O God." he abolishes the first to establish the second:
10 in consequence of which WILL we are sanctified by the oblation which Jesus Christ has made once for all of his own body.
11 While the high priest in his daily administrations frequently repeated the same sacrifices which could by no means expiate sin;
12 Christ, after he had offered one sacrifice for sin, sat down on the right hand of God for ever:
13 expecting the only event still remaining, the entire subjection of his enemies.
14 for by one single oblation he has purified for ever those that are sanctified.
15 and this is what the holy spirit declares, when after having said,
16 "this is the alliance that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their mind will I write them:
17 he adds, and their sins and iniquities will I remember no more."
18 now where they are remitted, there is no need of any further oblation for sin.