en_tn/heb/10/01.md

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Connecting Statement:

The writer shows the weakness of the law and its sacrifices, why God gave the law, and the perfection of the new priesthood and Christ's sacrifice.

the law is only a shadow of the good things to come

This speaks about the law as if it were a shadow. The author means the law is not the good things that God had promised. It only hints at the good things that God is going to do. (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor)

not the real forms of those things themselves

"not the real things themselves"

year after year

"every year"