{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-6488","native_reference":{"book_number":650,"chapter_from":10,"chapter_to":10,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":4,"verse_to":4},"public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"verse-keyed-module-record","review_required":["English edition and exact text","author/work attribution","dating","verse mapping and citation kind","reuse and attribution","split author quotations and deduplicate"],"review_status":"unreviewed","source_html":"<p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: \"For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.\"</p><p>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; as, therefore, if being once applied it accomplishes the whole, it proves its own strength in being no more applied, and this is its business, to be no more applied; whereas if it is applied continually, this is a plain proof of its not having strength.<br/><i>— Homily on Hebrews 17</i></p><p><b>Oecumenius</b>: \"For it is impossible for the blood of bulls.\" Therefore, he shows the truth of what has been said, from the insignificance of the blood.<br/><i>— The Pseudo-Oecumenian Catena on Hebrews</i></p><p><b>Theodoret of Cyrus</b>: How could the blood of brute beasts declare guiltless some murderer or parricide? This is the reason blessed David also said, \"Had you wanted it, I would have offered sacrifice; you will take no delight in burned offerings.\"<br/><i>— INTERPRETATION OF Hebrews 10</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"eb63531cddf8b4948b674a18c1d0778d2a2d4acd7275a30c8fec03bed21a9de3","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":6488,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"0d1d3d10ff5d6087c8ea321a5125b2912f85554f059114cfe50c220935426761","translator":null,"work":null}