Isaiah 1:13 (WEB)
Bring no more vain offerings. Incense is an abomination to me. New moons, Sabbaths, and convocations— I can’t stand evil assemblies.
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 · 10
Tertullian
“For Isaiah the prophet says, “Your sabbaths my soul hateth;” and in another place he says, “My sabbaths ye have profaned.”” — editor's note: Isa. i. 13.
Read the whole comment“…sacrifices, and the fat of goats, and blood of bulls, I will not, not even if ye come to be seen by me: for who hath required these things from your hands?” for “from the rising sun unto the setting, my Name hath been made famous among all the nations, saith the Lord.”” — editor's note: Comp. Isa. i. 11–14, especially in the LXX.
Read the whole comment“So likewise by Isaiah: “The new moons, and Sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; your holy days, and fasts, and feast-days, my soul hateth.”” — editor's note: Slightly altered from Isa. i. 13, 14.
Read the whole comment“I am full of your solemnities, your feast-days, and your Sabbaths.”” — editor's note: See Isa. i. 11–14.
Read the whole comment“Now, although He has in a certain place expressed an aversion of Sabbaths, by calling them your Sabbaths, reckoning them as men’s Sabbaths, not His own, because they were celebrated without the fear of God by a people full of iniquities, and loving God “with the…” — editor's note: Isa. i. 13, 14.
Read the whole comment“…who had said by Isaiah, “Your new moons, and your sabbaths, and your high days I cannot bear; your fasting, and feasts, and ceremonies my soul hateth;” also by Amos, “I hate, I despise your feast-days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies;” and again by Hosea, “I will cause to cease all her mirth,…” — editor's note: Isa. i. 13, 14.
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Origen
- Origen, De Principiis II.8Book II
“But with regard to God, we find it written as follows: “And I will put My soul upon that soul which has eaten blood, and I will root him out from among his people;” and also in another passage, “Your new moons, and sabbaths, and great days, I will not accept; your fasts, and holidays, and festal days, My soul hateth.”” — editor's note: Isa. i. 13, 14.
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Theodoret of Cyrus
“Orth.—You have quoted this testimony most appositely and properly, but your opponent might reply that even before the incarnation God said to the Jews, “Fasting and holy day and feasts my soul hateth.”” — editor's note: Isaiah i. 13, 14. Sept.
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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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Clement of Alexandria
“Your new moons and your sabbaths I cannot away with.”” — editor's note: Isa. i. 11–14.
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Cross-references · 12
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