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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
What is "To do Thy will"? To give up, Myself, He means: This is the will of God. "By which Will we are sanctified." Or he even means something still further, that the sacrifices do not make men clean, but the Will of God. Therefore to offer sacrifice is not the will of God. And why dost thou wonder that it is not the will of God now, when it was not His will even from the beginning? For "who," saith He, "hath required this at your hands?" How then did He Himself enjoin it? In condescension. …
Theophylact of Ohrid
Paul himself explains the words of David. You will ask: what then? Were not the sacrifices according to the law in accordance with God's will? Indeed, they were in accordance with God's will, but the designation of will is twofold. One desires something preferentially above all else, as Paul says: "I wish that all men were as I am" (1 Cor. 7:7), that is, unmarried. One also desires something by way of condescension, as the same Paul says: "I desire that the younger widows marry" (1 Tim. 5:14) — this is a condescending will. …
Oecumenius
"to do your will, O God." What then? Were the sacrifices according to the law not the will of God? They were, but necessarily. For he did not say to them only this, that in general the sacrifices of animals are detestable to me, the incorporeal one. But since you desire to offer sacrifices, at least offer them to me and not to the idols, which was not of a pure and original will. "the first in order to establish the second." What is the first? The sacrifices. What is the second? The cross. …
Western Saints
Thomas Aquinas
Therefore, after saying this he continues: Then said I, namely, when You fitted to me a body for my passion, or when they did not please you, Lo, I have come, either to the incarnation or to the passion. To what end? To do your will, O God: 'I came down from heaven to do the will of him that sent me' (Jn. 6:38); 'My meat is to do the will of him that sent me' (Jn. 4:34). Therefore, the prophet in saying this, abolishes the first, in order to establish the second. …
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