Imago Dei

That day

Friday, 18 March 2005

The verse

“But he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought our peace was on him; and by his wounds we are healed.”
Isaiah 53:5 · WEB

From the tradition

“Believe, and thou hast eaten already.”

Augustine of Hippo · Tractates on the Gospel of John, Tractate 25, §12

In the words of a public-domain translation (tr. John Gibb and James Innes, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series, vol. 7, ed. Philip Schaff (1888)), checked against the source edition.

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