“It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.”
Therefore it was necessary for the copies of the heavenly things to be purified with these rites, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these — the argument reaches its climax: if earthly copies required blood purification, how much more the heavenly realities themselves? Christ's offering is the better sacrifice (thysiai kreittons) that accomplishes what animal sacrifices could only prefigure.
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