That day
Thursday, 21 September 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
“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.