But into the second went the high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people:
Ver. 7. For the errors] Gr. αγνοηματα, The not knowings of the people; those errors that they could not help, and yet must else have answered for. Ignorat sane improbus omnis, saith Aristotle. Ignorance is the source of all sin, the very well spring from which all wickedness doth ooze and issue. What will not an ignorant man do, who knows not but he may do anything? "The dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty," Psalms 74:20. Christ therefore expiated the ignorances of his people.