Imago Dei

That day

Saturday, 24 March 2007

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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