Oecumenius, on Heb 8:13

“Now in saying a new, he hath made the former old. And that which decayeth and groweth old, is near its end.”

“"In speaking of a new covenant." For to call it altogether new has made the first covenant old. "And what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away." Now, having taken boldness from the prophet, he himself declares. This, he says, is new, but that one is old. The old is being abolished, he says. Therefore, it has been cast out and dissolved because of old age; as if he were saying: The new has not suddenly ceased the old, but because of its old age and antiquity, that is, because of its weakness and uselessness. "what the law could not do." he says elsewhere, in that part where it "was weakened by the flesh". (Rom. 8:3)”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.