Liturgical vessels handed over; altar of the soul

He handed over the liturgical vessels, no longer being well-pleased with the sacrifices from the impious according to: “whole burnt offerings of rams and fat of lambs and blood of bulls and goats I do not want.” And he also handed over the wall holding together the houses of the city—or the palaces, as Symmachus rendered. And the hostile ones, having taken even the temple, were then celebrating as upon a complete victory, shouting. And altar of a soul is the rational part in us, through which the passions are sacrificed when being put to death.