That day
Saturday, 18 June 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
“The oftener we are mown down by you, the more in number we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.”
Tertullian of Carthage · Apology, Chapter 50
In the words of a public-domain translation (tr. S. Thelwall, Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 3, ed. Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson, rev. A. Cleveland Coxe (1885)), checked against the source edition.