² Otherwise, would they not have stopped being offered? For the worshipers would have been cleansed once for all, and would no longer have felt guilty for their sins.

² For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.

² Else would they not have ceased to be offered? because the worshippers, having been once cleansed, would have had no more consciousness of sins.