blood; he entered in once into the holy place,
having obtained eternal redemption for us. 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; 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. And for this cause," i. e. for the purpose of
purging us from dead works to serve the living God, "he is the
Mediator of the New Testament." And we are told in the same
epistle, what that New Testament is. "I will put any laws in their
minds and write them in their hearts." As if to say, ye shall not be
as were the Jews in the time of Christ, like whited sepulchres,
beautiful indeed without, but full of all uncleanness within. "The
Lord thy God will circumcise thy heart, to love the Lord