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Or else wouldn`t they have ceased to be offered, because the worshippers, having been once cleansed, would have had no more consciousness of sins?
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The Repetition Test
Multiple commentators, including Charles Spurgeon, emphasize that the author's argument is simple and powerful: if the Old Testament sacrifices had truly and permanently cleansed people from sin, they would have stopped. The very fact that they had to be repeated daily and yearly was proof of their inability to provide a final solution for sin. Albert Barnes compares it to medicine that, if taken repeatedly without a cure, proves its own deficiency.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
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…
Else they would not have ceased? (επε ουκ αν επαυσαντο; ). Ellipsis of condition after επε (since if they really did perfect) with…
19th Century
Anglican
For then.—Better, otherwise. The very repetition of the annual ceremonial was a testimony to its imperfection. The idea o…
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Baptist
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…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
For then would they not have ceased to be offered The Complutensian edition, and the Syriac and Vulgate Latin versio…
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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…
13th Century
Catholic
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…