Imago Dei

That day

Tuesday, 3 May 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

“For He was made man that we might be made God; and He manifested Himself by a body that we might receive the idea of the unseen Father”

Athanasius of Alexandria · On the Incarnation of the Word, §54

In the words of a public-domain translation (tr. Archibald Robertson, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Second Series, vol. 4, ed. Philip Schaff and Henry Wace (1892)), checked against the source edition.

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