Blood And Spirit

Νουνεχῶς ἐρωτῶντι ἀνάγκη σοι ἀποκρίνεσθαι. Λαλει γὰρ, φησὶν, εἰς ὦτα ἀκουόντων. Καὶ, Ὁ ἔχων ὦτα ἀκούειν, ἀκουέτω. Μὴ ποιεῖτε τὸν οἶκον τοῦ Πατρός μου οἶκον ἐμπορίου, τοῖς τὰςπεριστερὰς πωλοῦσιν ὁ Κύριος εἶπε, τοὺς ἱερεῖς αἰνισσόμενος, τὰς τοῦ ἁγίου Πνεύματος ἀπεμπωλοῦντας δωρεάς· ἐπειδὴ ἐν εἶδει περιστερᾶς τὸ θεῖον ἐπεφάνη Πνεῦμα τοὺς θεοκαπήλους προπηλακίζον. Τὸ δὲ, Ἂρατε ταῦτα ἐντεῦθεν, Οὐ χρεία λοιπὸν, φησὶ, τῶν αἱμάτων· ἀναίμακτον ἐγὼ χαριζομαι πταισμάτων ἄφεσιν· ἐκ τοῦ δεῦρο πνεῦμα μόνον ἐξιλάσκεσθαι βούλομαι. Ὁ σαρκικὸς πεπλήρωται νόμος, ὁ τοῦ πνεύματος κρατείτω, καὶ τῆς σωτηρίας ἀρχέτω. Ἅγιος Ἰσίδωρος Του Πηλουσιώτου, Βιβλίον Πρῶτον, Ἐπιστολή ΡϚ' Source: Migne PG 78.253c

To you who wisely ask it is necessary to reply. For it says, 'Speak to the ears that hear.' 1 And, 'He who has ears let him hear.' 2 And 'Do not make the house of my father a house of sale,' 3 He then says to those who were selling doves, which signifies the sacred gifts of the Spirit, the Holy Spirit having appeared in the form of a dove, and those who trade in the Divine disgrace it. And He says, 'Take these away from here,' 4 as if He had said, 'No longer does blood benefit. I shall give forgiveness of faults without blood. From now the spirit only I wish to propitiate. The carnal law is fulfilled, now the spiritual commands, and it begins the work of salvation.' Saint Isidore of Pelusium, Letter 106, to the Lector Timotheus 1 Sirach 25.12 2 Lk 8.8 3 Jn 2.16 4 Mat 3.16