For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.
For - Reason why, necessarily, there is a continually-recurring 'remembrance of sins' in legal sacrifices (Hebrews 10:3). Typically, "the blood of bulls," etc., had power; but it was only in virtue of the one antitypical sacrifice of Christ: they had no power in themselves; they were not the instrument of vicarious atonement, but an exhibition of the need of it, suggesting to believing Israelites the sure hope of coming redemption, according God's promise.
Take away, х afairein (G851)] - 'take off.' х Perielein (G4014), Hebrews 10:11, is stronger. 'take away utterly.'] The blood of brutes could not take away the sin of man. A MAN must do that (notes, Hebrews 9:12-14).