Imago Dei

That day

Sunday, 24 June 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

“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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