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Isaiah 53:4

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Surely he has borne our sickness and carried our suffering; yet we considered him plagued, struck by God, and afflicted.

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Verse 4. Sorrows. Healing them by his own afflictions. Matthew 8:15. Sickness is an effect of sin, which Jesus came to destroy. 1 Peter 2:24—Leper, who was bound to have his face covered. verse 3. Leviticus 13:45.—God. Payva (Def. Trin. iv.) assures us that many Jews were converted by the perusal of this chapter, and particularly of this verse, which may be rendered “as a God wounded and afflicted.” Calmet.

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