V. 27.— Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people's: for this he did once, when he offered up himself. It follows that he had no occasion, like the Jewish high priests, to offer many sacrifices; first, for his own sins, and then for those of the people. Sins he had none; his hands were clean, his heart was pure, and he fully expiated the sins of his people by once offering himself as a Lamb without spot or blemish. The grave had not ceased to cry, Give, give, and those who entered its gloomy chambers mouldered to dust; but the Holy One of God could see no corruption, the earth cast forth her dead, thus declaring that the dominion of death was at an end; that, in fact, it was abolished, being deprived of its sting, and the grave converted into a bed of rest from which all the redeemed shall come forth, that in one body they may occupy those mansions which the Firstborn is gone before to prepare.