who, being the effulgence of his glory and the exact representation of his essence, and upholding all things by his own powerful word, when he had by himself made expiation for our sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,

"Wherefore, it behooved him to be made like his brethren in all things, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, in order to make expiation for the sins of the people.

If, then, there had been a perfect expiation by means of the Levitical priesthood, (for with reference to it, the people received the law,) what further need was there that another priest should be raised up after the order of Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron?

(for the law made no perfect expiation), and the introduction of a better hope, by which we draw near to God.

For the law, having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never, with the same sacrifices, which they offer year by year continually, make a perfect expiation for those who come to them:

For by one offering, he has made a perfect and perpetual expiation for the sanctified.

And he is the expiation for our sins: not for ours only, but for the sins of the whole world.

In this is love; not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the expiation for our sins.