The first tabernacle’s repeated service symbolized restricted access; its gifts and sacrifices could not perfect the worshiper’s conscience and its ordinances were imposed until a time of reformation. Christ enters once for all with his own blood, obtains eternal redemption and cleanses the conscience. The passage grants the former rites bodily cleansing and connects Christ’s death with transgressions under the first covenant; it does not deny that God forgave people before Christ.
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