V. 3.— But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year. So far from removing a sense of guilt, the legal sacrifices brought the guilt of the worshippers to their remembrance every year. The sacrifice on the great day of atonement might seem to remove the sins of Israel, and it did so in one sense; it sanctified to the purifying of the flesh, Hebrews 9:13, removed ceremonial uncleanness; but the following year the same process took place. Thus we see how the sacrifices did no more than bring the sins of Israel to remembrance. Every succeeding day of atonement testified the inefficacy of what had gone before.