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Shadow (skian). The contrast here between skia (shadow, shade caused by interruption of light as by trees, Mar 4:32) and eikōn (image or picture) is striking. Christ is the eikōn of God (2Co 4:4; Col 1:15). In Col 2:17 Paul draws a distinction between skia for the Jewish rites and ceremonies and sōma for the reality in Christ. Children are fond of shadow pictures. The law gives only a dim outline of the good things to come (Heb 9:11).
Continually (eis to diēnekes). See this phrase also in Heb 7:3; Heb 9:12, Heb 9:14. Nowhere else in N.T. From diēnegka (diapherō), to bear through.
They can (dunantai). This reading leaves ho nomos a nominativus pendens (an anacoluthon). But many MSS. read dunatai (it - the law - can). For the idea and use of teleiōsai see Heb 9:9.