Greek original · 15 verses · some words can be tapped for a gloss · long chapter, split into parts; this part covers 1:10.24–1:10.38 (277 verses in all)
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Since he made him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, laying upon him, for our sakes, all the punishments that hung over us — bonds and dishonors and insults, scourges and monstrous blows, and, above all these, the trophy of the curse.
After all these things, then, having, as it were, offered a wondrous and choice victim and sacrifice, well-pleasing to the Father, he offered it up on behalf of the salvation of us all, having handed down to us also a memorial to offer continually to God in place of sacrifice.
This too the wondrous David, among the prophets, by the divine Spirit, foreknowing what was to come, proclaimed beforehand, saying: "Waiting, I waited for the Lord, and he attended to me, and heard my supplication, and brought me up out of a pit of misery and from the mire of the deep. And he set my feet upon a rock, and directed my steps. And he put into my mouth a new song, a hymn to our God."
And what the new song is, he goes on to make clear, saying next: "Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me; whole burnt offerings and sin offerings you did not require. Then I said, Behold, I come; in the roll of the book it is written of me, that I should do your will, O God: I desired it." And he adds: "I have preached righteousness in the great congregation."
Teaching directly that, in place of the ancient sacrifices and whole burnt offerings, the incarnate presence of Christ and his prepared body has been offered to God, he proclaims this very thing as good news to his church, as a great mystery announced beforehand in the roll of the book by the prophetic voice. Having received, then, the body and the saving blood of this victim according to the institutions of the new covenant, we are taught again by the prophet David to say: "You have prepared a table before me, over against those who afflict me; you have anointed my head with oil, and your cup, making me drunk, is as the strongest."
In these words, then, the mystical anointing is expressly signified, and also the reverend offerings of the table of Christ, by which, performing sacred rites, we have been taught to offer, throughout the whole of life, bloodless and rational sacrifices, pleasing to him, to the God who is over all, through his supreme high priest over all.
This very thing, too, the great prophet Isaiah, by the divine Spirit, wondrously foreknew and proclaimed beforehand. He too speaks thus: "O Lord my God, I will glorify you, I will hymn your name, for you have done wonderful things."
And what these truly wonderful things are, he goes on to make plain, saying next: "The Lord Sabaoth will make for all the nations: they shall drink gladness, they shall drink wine, they shall be anointed with myrrh. Deliver all these things to the nations; for this counsel is upon all the nations."
Such, then, were also the wonders of Isaiah, promising a goodly fragrance and an anointing of myrrh, not to Israel, but to all the nations — whence also, from that anointing with myrrh, they were deemed worthy of the appellation of "Christians." But he also proclaims for the nations gladness of wine, obscurely hinting at the mystery of the new covenant of Christ, which is now, in the present time, plainly being accomplished among all the nations.
Again, these bodiless and intellectual sacrifices the prophetic oracles proclaim, containing something to this effect: "Sacrifice to God a sacrifice of praise, and render your vows to the Most High; and call upon me in the day of affliction, and I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me."
All these things, then, which were proclaimed from of old, are, through the evangelical teaching of our Savior, being accomplished at the present time by all the nations, the truth bearing witness to the prophetic voice, by which, God, having rejected the sacrifices according to Moses, proclaims beforehand what was to come to pass in our own case, saying: "For from the rising of the sun even to its setting, my name has been glorified among the nations; and in every place incense is offered to my name, and a pure sacrifice."
We therefore, accordingly, sacrifice to the God who is over all a sacrifice of praise; we sacrifice the God-inspired, reverend, and priestly victim; we newly sacrifice, according to the new covenant, the pure sacrifice. For it is said that a sacrifice to God is a broken spirit: "a heart that is broken and humbled God will not despise."
And indeed we also burn the prophetic incense, offering to him in every place the sweet-smelling fruit of all-virtuous theology, just as the prophet teaches, who said: "Let my prayer be set forth as incense before you."
We both sacrifice, then, and burn incense: at one time performing the memorial of the great victim according to the mysteries handed down by him, and offering to God, on behalf of our salvation, thanksgiving through pious hymns and prayers; at another time consecrating ourselves wholly to him, and to his high priest, the Word — training ourselves to keep ourselves for him; and we offer to him a mind purified from every passion and from every stain that comes from vice, and we worship him with reasonings unperverted and with an unfeigned disposition, and with doctrines of truth. For we have been taught that these things are more pleasing to him than a multitude of sacrifices performed with blood and smoke and the savor of burnt fat.