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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Augustine of Hippo
"Sacrifice and offering You did not desire" [Psalm 40:6], says the Psalm to God. For the men of old time, when as yet the true Sacrifice, which is known to the faithful, was foreshown in figures, used to celebrate rites that were figures of the reality that was to be hereafter; many of them understanding their meaning; but more of them in ignorance of it. …
Thomas Aquinas
"Sacrifice and offering you did not desire." Here he assigns the reason why he renders this recompense to God for his benefits, or why he preached. And he assigns this cause in two ways. First, he presents the divine will as the cause. Second, his own resolve, at "Then I said." Concerning the first, it should be known that in the old covenant, certain sacrifices were offered for benefits received from God; and in general there were four kinds of things that were offered to God. …
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