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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
Hesychius of Jerusalem
The Jews, hearing these things, did not believe, and they doubted they were able to happen. Now the word is proven. They no longer have the place of their sacrifice, since the temple has been destroyed, the altar collapsed and all their administration carried away, even the city overturned, in which it was necessary to sacrifice according to law.
Large COMMENTARY ON PSALMS 50:8
Western Saints
Augustine of Hippo
As yet that Israel perchance doth not understand what are the holocausts thereof which He hath in His sight always, and is still thinking of oxen, of sheep, of he-goats: let it not so think: "I will not accept calves of thy house." Holocausts I named; at once in mind and thought to earthly flocks thou wast running, therefrom thou wast selecting for Me some fat thing: "I will not accept calves of thy house." He is foretelling the New Testament, wherein all those sacrifices have ceased. …
Thomas Aquinas
On the part of God he makes the reason clear when he says, "I will not accept calves from your house." The reason I will not reprove you for sacrifices is that what I do not principally seek, I do not principally reprove. There were two principal sacrifices: the calf and the goat. Lev. 4. And he shows that he does not accept these two, that is, approve them, from the house of carnal men: "From your flocks," namely carnal ones, "I will accept," that is, approve, "goats." Mic. 6: "Can the Lord be appeased with thousands of rams?"
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