“For there is verily a disannulling of the commandment going before for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof.”
The former regulation is set aside because it was weak and useless — the Levitical law is abrogated, not because it was evil, but because it was weak and useless. A law that could not perfect those under it was destined to be displaced by something better.
Church Fathers on Hebrews 7:18
“For there is verily” (he says) “a disannulling of the commandment going before, for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof.” Here the Heretics press on. But listen attentively. He did not say “for the evil,” nor, “for the viciousness,” but “for the weakness and unprofitableness [thereof],” yea and in other places also he shows the weakness; as when he says “In that it was weak through the flesh.” Romans 8:3 [The law] itself then is not weak, but we.
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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