Hebrews 10:4 (WEB)
For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins.
Fathers and councils · 2
John Chrysostom
““For” (he says) “the Law having a shadow of the good things to come, not the very image of the things,” i.e. of the sacrifice, of the remission: “can never by those sacrifices with which they offered continually make the comers thereunto perfect.” ( Ver.” — the author cites it
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“…us partake of the cleansing waters, more purifying than hyssop, purer than the legal blood, more sacred than the ashes of the heifer sprinkling the unclean, and providing a temporary cleansing of the body, but not a complete taking away of sin; for if once purged, why should they need further purification?” — editor's note: Heb. x. 4.
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