For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.
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Gill's Exposition
For then would they not have ceased to be offered,.... The Complutensian edition, and the Syriac and Vulgate Latin versions, leave out the word "not"; and the sense requires it should be omitted, for…
Barnes' Notes
For then would they not have ceased to be offered? - Margin, “Or they would have.” The sense is the same. The idea is, that the very fact that they were repeated showed that there was some deficiency…
Adam Clarke
Would they not have ceased to be offered? - Had they made an effectual reconciliation for the sins of the world, and contained in their once offering a plenitude of permanent merit, they would have…
Here the apostle, by the direction of the Spirit of God, sets himself to lay low the Levitical dispensation; for though it was of divine appointment, and very excellent and useful in its time and…
Cambridge Bible
once purged having been cleansed, by these sacrifices, once for all.
conscience Rather, "consciousness."
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