Hebrews 10:1-4:
10:1For the law – having a shadow of the good-things being about-to (come) and the image of the matters, yearly with the same sacrifices they offer continuously – is never able to make-complete the (people) coming-towards (God). .2Since also if-ever did (those sacrifices) stop being offered, because-of the (priests) rendering-service once having been cleaned2 yet having not-one conscience of sins? - (no.) .3But in them (there is) remembrance of sins yearly .4for (it is) not-able (for the) blood of goats and bulls to take-away sins.
Continuing from ‘chapter 9’ we read: In truth, the law of Moses…
…is never able to make the people coming-towards God complete. The law is not capable at any time (emphatically it cannot, it does not have the able-power, the ability) to cause the priests and the people going towards God to reach and arrive at their ending-issue, to make them perfect, to cause them to arrive at their ultimate state of completeness. The Levitical priests were instructed by God to keep offering free-gifts and sacrifices because of the sins which the priests and the rest of the people continued to commit, and they were always conscious of the fact that they were not complete from God’s viewpoint.
Since in addition, did it happen at any time while the Levitical priests were offering that those sacrifices willingly stopped being offered on account of the priests rendering-service (performing, carrying out service as hired servants) once having been cleaned (at one time having previously been freed from any bad foreign mixture, caused to be cleansed) and continuing clean and still having not-one (none, not any) conscience of sins?
In verse 2 some Greek texts have “since not ever…” but the papyrus P46 reads as I have translated above. The word “conscience” refers to all of a person’s knowing awareness, the perception of what is right which a person has put together for himself in his mind as a result of all that he has already been taught and learned in relation to the one whom he recognizes as his ruler, the one who has authority, ultimately this authority should be the only true God.
Since also if-ever did those sacrifices stop being offered because-of the priests rendering-service once having been cleaned and continuing clean yet having not-one conscience of sins? The unwritten answer is of course “No” – as the writer continues by explaining: but contrary to that ever happening, in those sacrifices there is remembrance of sins (a calling up in their minds, a reminder of swerving from, missing the mark of the truth of God’s Word to them) year-by-year, for it is not-able (not possible, there is no able-power, no ability) for the blood of goats and bulls to take-away (remove, deprive them of and thus freeing them from) sins.
[Reference: Leviticus chapter 16; Luke 22:19; Romans 11:27; I Corinthians 11:24 and 25; Galatians 3:19; Colossians 2:17; I Timothy 3:9; II Timothy 1:3; Hebrews 7:11 and 19a, 8:3-6, 9:9-15, 22, 23 and 28. Note: verbs with a superscript 2 (2) immediately following them indicate the "perfect" tense - details are provided in the "Relevant Notes" link of this study.]
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