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In whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you had no pleasure.
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Commentators explain that God's displeasure was not with the sacrifices themselves, but with their inherent inability to truly atone for sin or cleanse the conscience. They were temporary types and shadows. As one scholar notes, considered in themselves, these liturgical actions could not ultimately please God because they were powerless to solve the sin problem.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you have had no pleasure. This is not quoted literally from the Psalm, but its sense is retained…
Thou hadst no pleasure (ουκ ευδοκησας). First aorist active indicative of ευδοκεω, common for God's good pleasure ([Reference Matt…
19th Century
Anglican
Burnt offerings.—Better, whole burnt offerings. These (which were the symbol of complete consecration) are not mentioned …
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Baptist
In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you have had no pleasure. Then said I, Look, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me) t…
“Therefore” introduces the next stage of the argument. Because the Levitical sacrifices were powerless to deal with sin, another provision had to b…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin Which were the principal kinds of offerings under the law:
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The apostle, having shown that the tabernacle and ordinances of the covenant of Sinai were only emblems and types of the gospel, concludes that the…
13th Century
Catholic
Having considered what was done in both testaments to show the superiority of the New Testament over the Old, the Apostle now proves something he h…
