That day
Tuesday, 21 March 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
“He can no longer have God for his Father, who has not the Church for his mother.”
Cyprian of Carthage · On the Unity of the Church, §6
In the words of a public-domain translation (tr. Ernest Wallis, Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 5, ed. Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson, rev. A. Cleveland Coxe (1886)), checked against the source edition.