Charles Spurgeon Commentary Hebrews 10:2

"Else would they not have ceased to be offered? because the worshippers, having been once cleansed, would have had no more consciousness of sins." — Hebrews 10:2 (ASV)

For –

If the worshippers had in this way been made perfect; if they had been completely cleansed and accepted through these sacrifices, –

Then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.

The fact that there was a lamb to be offered every morning and every evening, and that there was a great day of atonement to be observed every year, proved that there was sin still remaining, which had not been put away, sin that the worshippers needed to come again, and again, and yet again, with fresh sacrifices for their fresh sins. The apostle's argument is unanswerable.

Because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.

Once cleansed from sin, we are cleansed from sin; the great deed is done once for all.

For then—

If they had been effectual,

Would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.

Once forgiven, the sin would not have come back again. If the sacrifice had really cleansed the conscience of the offerer, he would not have had cause to present it again.

For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins. (Hebrews 10:2)

There would have been no need to bring another lamb to be offered if the one which was presented had put away sin; there would have been no need of another day of atonement if the sacrifice on the one day had really made atonement for sin.