For] Or, otherwise they would have, &c. Whether this clause be read with or without an interrogation, the sense will be the same: the scope of the Apostle being to shew the weaknesse and insufficiencie of the Legall sacrifices to purge the conscience from the guilt of sinne, from their often repetition. because] Vers. 18. worshippers] Chap. 9. 9. once] That is, if they had been once purged from the guilt of their sinnes. conscience] Should not have their conscience any longer under the burden or guilt of those sinnes.