^{1 Ref} For the law having a shadow of the good `things' to come, not the very image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect them that draw nigh.

^{2 Ref} Else would they not have ceased to be offered? because the worshippers, having been once cleansed, would have had no more consciousness of sins.

^{3 Ref} But in those `sacrifices' there is a remembrance made of sins year by year.

^{4 Ref} For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins.

^{5 Ref} Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, But a body didst thou prepare for me;