פירוש על ישעיהו 43:23

You did not bring Me the lambs of your burnt offerings but to idolatry.

Thou hast not brought me burnt offerings in Babylon.

neither did I overwork you Cause you to do much work with the meal offering; merely a handful would be offered to the Most High, and even that I did not ordain upon you to sacrifice as an obligation but as a free-will offering.

Neither hast thou honoured me (זבחיך) with thy sacrifices, with thy peace-offerings.²⁴The word זבח is used in connection with שלמים to signify peace-offerings (Lev. 3:1), and as a complement of עולותיך, signifying all animal offerings except the holocaust (ib. 17:8), that is, peace and sin-offerings. The word occurring twice in <underline>this</underline> passage, is therefore explained to refer each time to a different kind of sacrifice. I. E. refers it first to peace-offerings, probably because of the expression neither hast thou honoured me; believing that sin-offerings can never be an honour to the Almighty; they can only be the symbol of a compensation or a satisfaction for wrongs done as it were against the Almighty; this is properly expressed by the verb הרויתני thou hast satisfied me, or thou hast filled me. I have not caused, etc. I have not asked thee to serve me with oblations.

Nor wearied thee with incense, to buy incense for me.