“In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure.”
'In burnt offerings and sin offerings you have taken no pleasure' — God's rejection of the sacrificial system as ultimately satisfactory is announced in the Psalms themselves; the old covenant scripture testifies against its own inadequacy.
Church Fathers on Hebrews 10:6
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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