This section (verses 1–10) takes up the same thought which was interrupted after 9:22. The sacrifices of the law and the one sacrifice of Christ are compared. By so doing, further explanation is given to show the superiority of the one sacrifice over the many. “Good things to come” refers to the same “good things to come” mentioned in 9:11. The law possessed only a shadow of things to come. The shadow is not
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