The law had the shadow of good things to come, not the substance of the things themselves (Heb. 10), for neither by the offering nor by the blood of the offering was it possible to take away sin—and neither the royal priesthood nor the priestly service of the Levites was able to help even a single man who had fallen among thieves, though the bleeding misery of the half-dead man was plainly visible, and the matter of help was left in hope until the compassionate Samaritan appeared, declaring in decided