<p>9:10 <i>Being merely foods, drinks and various washings, earthly ordinances imposed until a time of reformation</i>- The inadequacy of the rituals in allowing man to come into the Most Holy place of itself implies that there had to be a &quot;time of reformation&quot;. The word for &quot;reformation&quot; is found again in 12:13: &quot;Make straight 'reformed' paths for your feet&quot;, lest any stumble. The idea is of making a path straight and direct (LXX Jer. 7:3,5). The way of Judaism caused men to stumble; there was no direct path into the Most Holy. No amount of ritual could cleanse the conscience; a radical reformation was required, a straightening out of the path between God and man.</p>