“Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.”
Then he added, 'Behold, I have come to do your will.' He abolishes the first in order to establish the second — Christ's will-doing (poiēma) replaces the sacrificial system. Abolish (anairein) and establish (histanō) mark the decisive rupture: the old is set aside (not merely supplemented) so the new can be instituted.
Church Fathers on Hebrews 10:9
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;…
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