Sacrifice and offering, 1969

Sacrifice and offering

Hebrews 10. The shadows & the real (conté crayon, b.l.); Colin McCahon Sept. 9. '69 (conté crayon, b.r.)

'Sacrifice and offering thou / didst not desire. | But thou / hast prepared a body for me / whole offerings and sin offerings / thous didst not delight in. / as it is written of me on the scroll / Then I said. "Here I am: / I have come, O God, to do thy / will."'
First he says, 'Sacrifices and offerings, / WHOLE-OFFERINGS AND SIN-OFFERINGS / THOU DIDST NOT DELIGHT IN; THOU / DIDST NOT DESIRE - although the / law presrcibes them - / and then he says, 'I have / come to do thy will.'
He / thus annuls thhe former to / establish the latter. And it / is by the will of God that we / have been consecrated, through the / offering of the body of Jesus / Christ once and for all.
EVERY PRIEST STANDS PERFORMING / HIS SERVICE DAILY AND OFFERING TIME AFTER / TIME THE SAME SACRIFICES, WHICH CAN / NEVER REMOVE SINS.
But Christ offered for / all time one sacrifice for sins, and took his / seat at the right / hand of God.

1969 Written paintings and drawings: Colin McCahon
Barry Lett Galleries
Auckland
6/10/1969 - 17/10/1969

The text is Hebrews 10:5-12, from the New English Bible.