not the very image of the things, they
can never with the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer
continually, make perfect them that draw nigh. Else would they not
have ceased to be offered, because the worshippers, having been once
cleansed, would have had no more conscience of sins? But in those
_sacrifices_ there is a remembrance made of sins year by year. For
it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away
sins. Wherefore when He cometh into the world, He saith,

Sacrifice and offering Thou wouldest not,
But a body didst Thou prepare for Me:
In whole burnt offerings and _sacrifices_ for sin Thou hadst
no pleasure:
Then said I, Lo, I am come
(In the roll of the book it is written of Me)
To do Thy will, O God.

Saying above, Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and
_sacrifices_ for sin Thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure
therein (the which are offered according to the Law), then hath He
said, Lo, I am come to do Thy will. He taketh away the first, that
He may establish the second. By which will we have been sanctified
through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. And
every priest indeed standeth day by day ministering and offering
oftentimes the same sacrifices, the which can never take away sins:
but He, when He had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat
down on the right hand of God; from henceforth expecting till His
enemies be made the footstool of His feet. For by one offering He
hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified. And the Holy Ghost
also beareth witness to us: for after He hath said,

This is the covenant that I will make with them
After those days, saith the Lord;
I will put My laws on their heart,
And upon their mind also will I write them;

_then saith He_,

And their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.

Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for
sin."--HEB. ix. 15-x. 18 (R.V.).

The Apostle has proved that a new covenant was promised through the
prophet and prefigured in the tabernacle. Christ is come to earth and
entered into the holiest place of God, as High-priest. The inference is
that His high-priesthood has abolished the old covenant and ratified the
new. The priesthood has been change