Imago Dei

That day

Thursday, 9 August 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

“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.

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