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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
"For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins." So that their being many, and offered "continually," proves that they (the worshipers) were never made clean. For as a medicine, when it is powerful and productive of health, and able to remove the disease entirely, effects all after one application; as, therefore, if being once applied it accomplishes the whole, it proves its own strength in being no more applied, and this is its business, to be no more applied; whereas if it is applied continually, …
Theophylact of Ohrid
He makes his speech even stronger by pointing out the insignificance of the sacrifices offered and the severity of the disease, just as if someone skilled in the medical art, seeing that a leper is being offered the herb called mercurialis (λινόζωστιν), were to say: it is impossible to cure leprosy with mercurialis (mercury herb).
Oecumenius
"For it is impossible for the blood of bulls." Therefore, he shows the truth of what has been said, from the insignificance of the blood.
Western Saints
Thomas Aquinas
483. – Then when he says, For it is impossible that the blood of oxen and goats should take away sins, he proves the same thing by reason of the condition of the things offered. For the offering of oxen and goats, which took place on the day of atonement, was the most solemn of their offerings. And since it was an obscure and imperfect representation of heavenly things, as a shadow, it was impossible that sin be taken away by their blood. This is true, so far as their own power was concerned. …
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