Else they would not have ceased? (επε ουκ αν επαυσαντο; ). Ellipsis of condition after επε (since if they really did perfect) with…

For then would they not have ceased to be offered? A marginal note says, "Or they would have." The meaning is the same. The idea is that t…

For then.—Better, otherwise. The very repetition of the annual ceremonial was a testimony to its imperfection. The idea o…

For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered ye…

The rhetorical question here emphasizes the truth that the very continuity of the sacrifices witnesses to their ineffectiveness. Had the sacrifices…

For then would they not have ceased to be offered
The Complutensian edition, and the Syriac and Vulgate Latin versio…

The apostle, having shown that the tabernacle and ordinances of the covenant of Sinai were only emblems and types of the gospel, concludes that the…

Having considered what was done in both testaments to show the superiority of the New Testament over the Old, the Apostle now proves something he h…