Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges - Hebrews 10:3

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3. ἀνάμνησις ἁμαρτιῶν. This view of sacrifices—that they are “a calling to mind of sins yearly”—is very remarkable. It seems to be derived from Num 5:15, where “the offering of jealousy” is called “an offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to remembrance.” Philo also speaks of sacrifices as providing “not an oblivion of sins, but a reminding of them.” De plant. Noe, § 25. De Vit. Mos. III. § 10 (Opp. I. 345, II. 246). But if the sacrifices thus called sins to remembrance, they also daily symbolised the means of their removal, so that when offered obediently with repentance and faith they became valid symbols.