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that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying, “He took our infirmities and bore our diseases.”
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Verse 17. In the Greek of the seventy-two interpreters, for infirmities we have αμαρτιας, sins; but the evangelist refers this to our bodily infirmities, because, as S. Chrysostom observes, diseases are the punishment of sins, and frequently arrive from the diseases of the soul. Menochius.—The text of Isaias here quoted, regards the Messias literally. V.—He took our infirmities. The words signify both the distempers of the body and the infirmities of the soul, for Christ cured both. Witham.
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