Charles Spurgeon Commentary Hebrews 10:3-4

"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." — Hebrews 10:3-4 (ASV)

But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year. For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.

Your common sense tells you it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. Although rivers of such blood should continually be flowing, what efficacy could there be in them to put away the moral stain of guilt and transgression against God?

But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year. For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.

Their blood was only a picture, an emblem, a type of far more precious blood – the shadow of the real atonement which was afterwards to be offered.