Imago Dei

That day

Thursday, 3 November 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

“My weight is my love; by it am I borne whithersoever I am borne.”

Augustine of Hippo · Confessions, Book XIII, chapter 9

In the words of a public-domain translation (tr. J. G. Pilkington, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series, vol. 1, ed. Philip Schaff (1886)), checked against the source edition.

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