As to the nature of this service, the apostle tells us that it was “not without blood.” He so expressed it to show the impossibility of entering the holy place any otherwise. And from hence he takes his ensuing argument of the necessity of the death and blood-shedding of the mediator or high priest of the New Testament. “Not without blood;” as he might not do it otherwise, so he did it by blood. And this was the manner of […]