{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-6487","native_reference":{"book_number":650,"chapter_from":10,"chapter_to":10,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":3,"verse_to":3},"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>Ephrem the Syrian</b>: If they had become perfect, their priesthood would have ceased, because they should have abstained from their sacrifices. And if their conscience was cleansed from sin, at the same time they would have been cleansed from the impurity of flesh. But \"in these sacrifices there is a reminder of sin\" every day. \"For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sin.\" Therefore our Lord, who came to this world, said through the mouth of David, \"Sacrifices and offerings you have not desired, but a body you have prepared for me,\" so that the victims of sacrifices might be abolished through his sacrifice.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON THE EPISTLE TO THE HEBREWS</i></p><p><b>Oecumenius</b>: \"But in those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins.\" In them, he says, those sacrifices are only a reminder and a proof of sins, but there is no longer any forgiveness. And the proof that there is no forgiveness is the continual existence of sacrifices.<br/><i>— The Pseudo-Oecumenian Catena on Hebrews</i></p><p><b>Oecumenius</b>: For, he says, not only are the sacrifices offered for the sins that arise, but rather for all, as they have not been forgiven, for the sins that have already occurred.<br/><i>— The Pseudo-Oecumenian Catena on Hebrews</i></p><p><b>Theodoret of Cyrus</b>: He showed both the law's limitations and its usefulness: while it cannot remove sins, it mounts an accusation against them, instills fear and obliges one to have recourse to grace.<br/><i>— INTERPRETATION OF Hebrews 10</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"c155f4626ee9d40053af67b8896b6016a3b501afb609ed838f8e81794fb4f95d","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":6487,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"22a8fe5fdacb22207443e28c25ef0cb3a6378a99c7e6035e139910d53086ae3e","translator":null,"work":null}