Neither by the blood of goats, &c.— This and the preceding verse may be connected and paraphrased as follows: "But Christ an High-priest of good things to be afterwards bestowed, being come, through a greater and more perfect tabernacle, which was not, as the Jewish tabernacle, made with hands, or fashioned by men; being come (I say,) to the holy of holies, he entered once thereinto, not indeed with the blood of goats and calves, as the high-priests did,—having attained eternal redemption for all his faithful people,—a redemption, of which all the remissions and all the benefits procured by the ministration of the Aaronical priesthood, were but very imperfect figures."

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