has indicated, when Scripture uses the word ‘blood’, in almost all cases it indicates not the life of the animal, but its death.32 The high priest enters the holy place with the blood, symbolising expiation and propitiation. Jesus suffered outside the city to make the people holy through his own blood, the blood of the eternal covenant (Heb. 13:12, 20). Again ‘remission of sin’ refers to the remission of guilt-condemnation and not to the subjective dimension of sinfulness. Ignorance of this distinction