The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

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LXXVIII.
ONCE AND FOR EVER.
X. 11. And every priest indeed standeth day by day ministering and
offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, the which can never take away sins :
12. But he, when he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down
on the right hand of God;
13. From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made the footstool of
his feet.
14. For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.
IN the last verses of chap, vii., where the eternal priesthood of
Jesus had been set forth, He was spoken of as one who needeth
not daily to offer, for this He did once for all, when He offered
up Himself a Son, perfected for evermore. And so in chap,
ix., with its teaching of the efficacy of His blood, we had the
thought repeated, Christ entered in once for all. Not that He
should offer Himself often, else must He have often suffered ;
now once hath He been manifested ;
Christ once offered
shall appear a second time. The contrast is put as strongly
as possible between the sacrifices ever repeated, and the
offering of Christ once for all. So, too, in the beginning of
our chapter the impotence of the sacrifices year by year
continually is proved from the fact, that the conscience once
cleansed would need no new sacrifice; as a fact, they only
renewed the remembrance of sins. And now, in the concluding
summed up and pressed
verses of the argument, the thought is
home anew. The priest standeth day by day offering often-