Imago Dei

That day

Friday, 3 February 2006

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

“See, they say, how they love one another”

Tertullian of Carthage · Apology, Chapter 39

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.

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