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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
"For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshipers once purged, should have had no more conscience of sins? But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year." What then? do not we offer every day? We offer indeed, but making a remembrance of His death, and this remembrance is one and not many. How is it one, and not many? Inasmuch as that Sacrifice was once for all offered, and carried into the Holy of Holies. This is a figure of that sacrifice and this remembrance of that. …
Theophylact of Ohrid
Read in the interrogative form. If they had ceased from sins, he says, would not the offerings themselves have ceased as well, since those in need of their help would have received it sufficiently and would have had "no more consciousness of sins"? That is, nothing further among what they had recognized would require healing, by virtue of the fact that what was once cleansed is cured.
Oecumenius
"For they would not have ceased." According to the question, read. For if they had ceased, he says, those sacrifices would certainly not have ceased to be offered, because the consciousness of sins would no longer have been taken away, because it has been once for all purified.
Western Saints
Thomas Aquinas
481. – Then when he says, otherwise would they not have ceased to be offered? He proves his conclusion from two facts: first, from the rite; secondly, from the condition of the offerings (v. 4). 482. – To prove that the Law did not cleanse perfectly, he uses two facts: first, that there was frequent repetition of the same sacrifices in it. …
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