nsgressions committed
against the first testament, they who are called might receive the
promise of an eternal inheritance. (16)For where a testament is, of
necessity the death of the testator is implied. (17)For a testament is
valid when men are dead; for else it is of no efficacy whilst the
testator is alive. (18)Wherefore also that first testament was not
consecrated without blood. (19)For when every command according to the
law had been spoken by Moses to all the people, taking the blood of
calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, he
sprinkled both the book itself and all the people, (20)saying, This is
the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you. (21)And
the tabernacle also, and all the vessels employed in the divine
service, he in like manner sprinkled with blood. (22)And almost all
things are purified by blood according to the law, and without effusion
of blood there is no remission of sin. (23)There was a necessity
therefore that the representations of the things in heaven should be
purified by these; but the celestial things themselves with better
sacrifices than these. (24)For Christ is not entered into the holies
made with hands, the antitypes of the true; but into heaven itself, now
to appear before the presence of God for us: (25)and not that he should
often offer up himself in sacrifice, as the high-priest enters every
year into the holies with blood not his own, (26)(for in that case he
must have suffered often since the foundation of the world:) but now
once for all at the consummation of the ages hath he been manifested
for the abolishing sin by the sacrifice of himself. (27)And forasmuch
as it is appointed to men once to die, but after this the judgment,
(28)so Christ having been once offered in sacrifice to bear the sins of
men, will appear the second time without sin, to those who expect him,
for their salvation.

CHAP. X.

NOW the law, having a shadow of the good things which were to come, not
the very substance of the things, cannot possibly, by the same
sacrifices which they offer year by year continually, make those
perfect who approach _God_; (2)else they would have discontinued to
make the offering, because they who performed the service being once
made clean, would have had no more sense of sins on their conscience.
(3)But in these _sacrifices_ there is a commemoration of sins every
year. (4)For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should