...hope did, by which we draw nigh unto God.'2- Again, he says to them, concerning the Mosaic rites, ' The law, having a shadow of good things to come, and...continually, make the comers thereunto perfect For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins. Wherefore, when he [Christ]...

...ineffectual to take away sins.. ..10 By the offering of Christ's body ' once we obtain perfect remission, &c. FOR the law having a shadow of good things to come,...year continually, make the comers thereunto perfect. 2 For then would they not have ceased to be offered t because that the worshippers once purged should...

...present, which could not make him that performed it perfect, as pertaining to the conscience. — " The law having a shadow of good things to come, and...offered year by year continually, make the comers there* unto perfect" x. 1. Perfection was not by the Levitical priesthood, vii. 11, for whatever was...

...pollution which they could not remove, of wrath from which they could not protect. ' The law being a shadow of good things to come, and not the very...year continually, make the comers thereunto perfect.' n That moral perfection which consists in justification, sanctification, peace with and access to God,...

...thousands of rivers of oil3?" Besides, " the ' Heb. x. 1. 2 Heb. ix. 22. ; x. 4. 3 Micah vi. 6, 7. law having a shadow of good things to come, and not...purged should have had no more conscience of sins 1 ?" Not that the Jewish religion was on this account unworthy of the wisdom and goodness of Him by...

...and reigneth with thee and the HOLY SPIRIT, one GOD, world without end. Amen. The Epistle. Heb. x. 1. THE law having a shadow of good things to come, and...For then, would they not have ceased to be offered 1 because that the worshippers, once purged, should have had no more conscience of sins. But in those...

...your money ? The reasoning of the apostle Paul, on the repetition of sacrifices, is quite in point : " For the law, having a shadow of good things to come,...For, then, would they not have ceased to be offered ? hecause that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins," Heb. x. 1,...

...offered year by year continually could never make the comers thereunto perfect ; for then," he says, " would they not have ceased to be offered ? because...purged should have had no more conscience of sins." But their consciences were not satisfied, nor their fears allayed, if they were really awake to the infinite...

...salvation" (Heb. ix. 24—28). Teacher. Read also those verses marked in the tenth of Hebrews. Scholar. " For the law, having a shadow of good things to come and not the very image of the things, can never witli those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect....

...Jesus. Jewish and pagan oblations had, or were supposed to have, a passing and temporary virtue. " For the law having a shadow of good things to come,...FOR THEN WOULD THEY NOT HAVE CEASED TO BE OFFERED." * But the sacrifice on the CROSS is the very image or the thing itself; and therefore has more than...