until a time of reformation.
009:011 But Christ appeared as a High Priest of the blessings that are
soon to come by means of the greater and more perfect Tent
of worship, a tent which has not been built with hands--
that is to say does not belong to this material creation--
009:012 and once for all entered the Holy place, taking with Him
not the blood of goats and calves, but His own blood,
and thus procuring eternal redemption for us.
009:013 For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer
sprinkling those who have contracted defilement make them
holy so as to bring about ceremonial purity,
009:014 how much more certainly shall the blood of Christ,
who strengthened by the eternal Spirit offered Himself to God,
free from blemish, purify your consciences from lifeless
works for you to serve the ever-living God?
009:015 And because of this He is the negotiator of a new Covenant,
in order that, since a life has been given in atonement
for the offences committed under the first Covenant,
those who have been called may receive the eternal inheritance
which has been promised to them.
009:016 For where there is a legal `will,' there must also be a death
brought forward in evidence--the death of him who made it.
009:017 And a will is only of force in the case of a deceased person,
being never of any avail so long as he who made it lives.
009:018 Accordingly we find that the first Covenant was not
inaugurated without blood.
009:019 For when Moses had proclaimed to all the people every commandment
contained in the Law, he took the blood of the calves and
of the goats and with them water, scarlet wool and hyssop,
and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,