58:009:005 And over it the cherubims of glory shadowing
the mercyseat; of
which
we cannot now speak particularly.
58:009:006 Now when these things were thus ordained,
the priests went
always
into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the service
of
God.
58:009:007 But into the second went the high priest
alone once every
year,
not without blood, which he offered for himself, and
for
the
errors of the people:
58:009:008 The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the
way into the holiest
of
all was not yet made manifest, while as the first
tabernacle
was yet standing:
58:009:009 Which was a figure for the time then present,
in which were
offered
both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him
that
did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience;
58:009:010 Which stood only in meats and drinks, and
divers washings, and
carnal
ordinances, imposed on them until the time of
reformation.
58:009:011 But Christ being come an high priest of
good things to come,
by
a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with
hands,
that
is to say, not of this building;
58:009:012 Neither by the blood of goats and calves,
but by his own blood
he
entered in once into the holy place, having obtained
eternal
redemption for us.
58:009:013 For if the blood of bulls and of goats,
and the ashes of an
heifer
sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying
of
the
flesh:
58:009:014 How much more shall the blood of Christ,
who through the
eternal
Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your
conscience
from dead works to serve the living God?
58:009:015 And for this cause he is the mediator of
the new testament,
that
by means of death, for the redemption of the
transgressions
that were under the first testament, they which
are
called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
58:009:016 For where a testament is, there must also
of necessity be the
death
of the testator.
58:009:017 For a testament is of force after men are
dead: otherwise it
is
of no strength at all while the testator liveth.
58:009:018 Whereupon neither the first testament was
dedicated without
blood.
58:009:019 For when Moses had spoken every precept
to all the people
according
to the law, he took the blood of calves and of
goats,
with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled
both
the book, and all the people,
58:009:020 Saying, This is the blood of the testament
which God hath
enjoined
unto you.


