He answered, 'Let it stand this one year more, sir, till I dig around it and manure it;

Then the four angels who were held in readiness for that hour and day and month and year were let loose to kill one third of mankind.

But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them,

But do not overlook this one fact, dear friends, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years and a thousand years are like one day.

Nor does he go in to offer himself over and over again, like the high priest who enters the sanctuary year after year, taking with him blood that is not his own,

For while the Law foreshadowed the blessings that were to come, it did not fully express them, and so the priests by offering the same sacrifices endlessly year after year cannot wholly free those who come to worship from their sins.