“For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.”
Otherwise, would they not have ceased being offered, since the worshipers, having once been cleansed, would have no further consciousness of sin? — the logical reductio: if the sacrifices actually removed sin, they would have become unnecessary; the perpetuation of offerings proves their insufficiency. Consciousness of sin (syneidesis hamartion) persists because external ritual cannot address internal guilt.
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