2 Machabees 2:11
And Moses said: Because the sin offering was not eaten, it was consumed.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et dixit Moyses : Eo quod non sit comestum quod erat pro peccato, consumptum est.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ εἶπεν Μωσῆς Διὰ τὸ μὴ βεβρῶσθαι τὸ περὶ τῆς ἁμαρτίας ἀνηλώθη.
Haydock's commentary
Consumed. He alludes to what Moses said after the death of Nadab, Leviticus x. 16. (Calmet)
Fire consumed the sin-offering as well as the rest.
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
St Ambrose On the Duties of the Clergy, Chapter XVIII. In the narration of that event already mentioned, and especially of the sacrifice offered by Nehemiah, is typified the Holy Spirit and Christian baptism. The sacrifice of Moses and Elijah and the history of Noah are also referred to the same
107. Thou art that victim. Contemplate in silence each single point. The breath of the Holy Spirit descends on thee, He seems to burn thee when He consumes thy sins. The sacrifice which was consumed in the time of Moses was a sacrifice for sin, wherefore Moses said, as is written in the book of the Maccabees: “Because the sacrifice for sin was not to be eaten, it was consumed.” Does it not seem to be consumed for thee when in the sacrament of baptism the whole outer man perishes? “Our old man is crucified,” the Apostle exclaims. Herein, as the example of the fathers teaches us, the Egyptian is swallowed up, the Hebrew arises renewed by the Holy Spirit, as he also crossed the Red Sea dryshod, where our fathers were baptized in the cloud and in the sea.