Verse 22
22. Almost Alford thinks that this word does not qualify all things; but it qualifies the whole assertion. We might almost say that all things were blood-purged. And the almost universal law of the Levitical ritual was, no remission of sin without, that is, apart from, blood shedding; referring, beyond question, to the blood shedding of the victim, held by our writer as typical of the shedding of the blood of the Lamb of God.
As the blood is ritually the life, so the shedding of blood is the ritual symbol of death; of that death, how comprehensive soever it may be, which is the complete penalty of sin.
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