“For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.”
For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins (aphairein hamartias) — the fundamental principle underlying all preceding argument: animal blood lacks the efficacy to remove (aphairein) sin. It is categorically impossible (adynaton) because the problem exceeds the solution's scope.
Church Fathers on Hebrews 10:4
You see again the superabundance [of his proofs]? This sacrifice (he says) is one; whereas the others were many: therefore they had no strength, because they were many. For, tell me, what need of many, if one had been sufficient? So that their being many, and offered “continually,” proves that they [the worshipers] were never made clean. For as a medicine, when it is powerful and productive of health, and able to remove the disease entirely, effects all after one application;…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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