“Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.”
'Then I said, 'Behold, I have come to do your will, O God, as it is written of me in the scroll of the book'' — Christ's incarnational commitment is framed as obedience (poiēsai to thelēma sou); he comes not to perpetuate sacrifice but to replace it with his own will-doing. Written in the scroll (en kephaliditōs tou biblou) indicates that Christ's coming was prophetically anticipated.
Church Fathers on Hebrews 10:7
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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