<p>10:11 <em>And every priest indeed stands day by day serving, and offering often the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins- </em>This contrast between the priests <em>standing</em> in service and the Lord <em>sitting</em> at God's right hand is emphasized. I suggested on 1:1 that Paul is writing to the Hebrews with constant allusion to the martyrdom of Stephen. He saw the Lord standing at God's right hand- when usually, the Lord sits. But He was and can still be caught up in the passion and urgency of our human situations. The way the sacrifices were repeated &quot;the same sacrifices&quot; demonstrates how they were not ultimately effective. I have noted throughout chapter 9 that Paul has the rituals of the Day of Atonement in view. The allusion here would be to how the scapegoat apparently 'took away sins'; but the sacrifices had to continue to be offered. So there was something wrong with the scapegoat ritual; it was only effective insofar as it pointed forward to the ultimate bearer of sins, which Isaiah 53 presents as being the suffering servant on the cross, the &quot;body&quot; or &quot;servant / slave&quot; prepared instead of the ritual sacrifices (:5).</p>