Isaiah 1:11 (WEB)
“What are the multitude of your sacrifices to me?”, says the LORD. “I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fed animals. I don’t delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of male goats.
Catechism · 1
“The prophets of the Old Covenant often denounced sacrifices that were not from the heart or not coupled with love of neighbor.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Am 5:21-25; Isa 1:10-20.
Fathers and councils · 13
Irenaeus of Lyons
“I am full.”” — editor's note: Isa. i. 11.
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Tertullian
“And thus, as carnal sacrifices are understood to be reprobated—of which Isaiah withal speaks, saying, “To what end is the multitude of your sacrifices to me? saith the Lord”—so spiritual sacrifices are predicted as accepted, as the prophets announce.” — editor's note: Isa. i. 11.
Read the whole comment“For who hath required these from your hands?”” — editor's note: Isa. i. 11. See the LXX.
Read the whole comment“As for the burdensome sacrifices also, and the troublesome scrupulousness of their ceremonies and oblations, no one should blame them, as if God specially required them for Himself: for He plainly asks, “To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me?” and, “Who hath required them at your hand?”” — editor's note: Isa. i. 11, 12.
Read the whole comment“…calling off their homage from idols to God; and if He afterwards rejected this homage, saying, “To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me?”—He meant nothing else than this to be understood, that He had never really required such homage for Himself.” — editor's note: Isa. i. 11.
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Augustine of Hippo
“For their assemblies shall not be carnal, nor will I gather them together as one propitiated by the blood of cattle.” — editor's note: Isa. i. 11, 12.
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“For God does not need anything; and, since nothing is unclean to Him, He is full in regard to them, as He testifies, by Isaiah, saying, ‘I am full.’” — editor's note: Is. i. 11.
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John Chrysostom
“…the stress on their sacrifices; which thing He is also earnestly intimating unto them, when He sets down in brief what had been affirmed by all the prophets,saying, “Learn ye what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice.”” — editor's note: See Hosea vi. 6; Ps. l. 8–15; Prov. xxi. 3; Isa. i. 11–15; Micah vi. 6, 7, 8.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“Nor yet is this incomprehensibility for the sake of His own glory and honour, Who is full, as if His possession of His glory and majesty depended upon the impossibility of approaching Him.” — editor's note: Isa. i. 11.
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Clement of Alexandria
“Your new moons and your sabbaths I cannot away with.”” — editor's note: Isa. i. 11–14.
Read the whole comment“Such also as the following we find in Isaiah: “To what purpose to me is the multitude of your sacrifices? saith the Lord;” and the whole section.” — editor's note: Isa. i. 11, etc.
Read the whole comment“Put away wickedness from your souls,” and so forth.” — editor's note: Isa. i. 11, 16.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“For who hath required these things from your hands?”” — editor's note: Isa. i. 11, 12.
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Cross-references · 17
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews I.17.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews I.17.
Cited together in On Prayer Chapter 28.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion II.18.
Cited together in On Prayer Chapter 28.
Cited together in On Prayer Chapter 28.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews I.17.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion II.18.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion II.18.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion II.22.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion II.22.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion II.18.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews I.17.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews I.17 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews I.17.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews I.17.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews I.17.