That day
Friday, 9 November 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
“Give what Thou commandest, and command what Thou wilt.”
Augustine of Hippo · Confessions, Book X, chapter 29
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.