1. For the Law having a shadow, etc. He has borrowed this similitude from the pictorial art; for a shadow here is in a sense different from what it has in Colossians 2:17; where he calls the ancient rites or ceremonies shadows, because they did not possess the real substance…
KJVFor then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.
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4 additional translationsElse would they not have ceased to be offered? because the worshippers, having been once cleansed, would have had no more consciousness of sins.
If it could, would not the offerings have ceased? For the worshipers would have been cleansed once for all, and would no longer have felt the guilt of their sins.
since, would they not have ceased to be offered, because of those serving having no more conscience of sins, having once been purified?
Since, would they not indeed have ceased being offered, on account of the worshippers once purged having no longer any conscience of sins?
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New TestamentHebrews — Apostolic writings (New Testament).