In burnt offerings and sin offerings You took no delight.
Here the apostle, by the direction of the Spirit of God, sets himself to lay low the Levitical dispensation; for though it was of divine appointment, and very excellent and useful in its time and place, yet, when it was set up in competition with Christ, to whom it was only designed to lead the people, it was very proper and necessary to show the...
Commenting on Hebrews 10:1-6
In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin,.... Which were the principal kinds of offerings under the law: thou hast had no pleasure; not only in comparison of moral duties, or spiritual sacrifices, such as those of praise and thanksgiving, Psa 69:30 but so as to accept of the offerers for the sake of them, and smell a sweet savour in them; for these could not...
Verse 6. In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure. This is not quoted literally from the Psalm, but the sense is retained. The reading there is, "burnt-offering and sin-offering hast thou not required." The quotation by the apostle is taken from the Septuagint, with the change of a single word, which does not materially affect the sense--the word ουκευδοκησας ouk...