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he bears our sins and is pained for us; for they saw, as prophets, in what way the Lamb of God would come to be, taking away the sin of the world. To this is added, but we accounted him to be in trouble and in affliction and in distress; but he was wounded for our transgressions; for he was indeed wounded when they took up stones to cast at him; and he says he was bruised for our iniquities; for Christ, being weak with the weak more than Paul, would have said, "Who is weak, and I am not weak?" The prophet confesses all these things that he of whom the discourse is would suffer for himself and for all the people, for he says, "he was wounded for our transgressions, and he was bruised for our iniquities;" and counting himself among them he adds, saying, "with his stripes we are healed." And clearly seeing the error that came upon all the people of the circumcision concerning him, and that there is no man who will not sin, even if he seems to be the most righteous of all, he adds: "we have all gone astray like sheep; a man has gone astray in his way;" "and the Lord delivered him up for our sins;" and 222 what follows these things, which are shown to have reached their fulfillment unambiguously in our Savior Jesus alone; whence it is also worthy to marvel at the hardening of those of the former people who do not accept him, on the pretext of what they showed against him, at which it is their custom to laugh and mock, as though he suffered things unworthy of God's care for him; the prophet clearly crying out about him, in addition to what has been said, that "he was led as a sheep to the slaughter, and as a lamb before its shearer is silent, so he does not open his mouth;" and that "his life is taken from the earth." Who would not marvel at what is added to all the things foretold, hearing the prophet say, "for the transgressions of my people he was led to death;" or what excuse could they invent against these things, who truly (sic) heard the voice of Christ with their ears and did not understand, and looked upon his presence with their own eyes and did not see; for what other of the righteous could they present as having been led to death for their sins, or who has become such as to bear the sins of all the people and of the prophets themselves, and to be pained for them, so that they all confess they are healed by his stripe, saying, "this man bears our sins, and is pained for us, and with his stripe we are healed"? Who, having a human nature, could be such that he sinned neither in word nor in deed, so that the divine scripture speaks truly concerning him, that "he committed no iniquity, nor was deceit in his mouth 223"? For what reason does the word foretell that the one testified to in these things will be led as a sheep to the slaughter, and for the transgressions of the people will be condemned to death? Let them also say whether the Christ they expect to come will certainly suffer these things which the prophecies proclaim concerning him, or if nothing of the sort will happen to that one. But if they stumble in their faith in him because of the things that happened to our Savior, they would not shrink from saying such things about the one they expect. It is time, therefore, for the divine voices to be declared unfulfilled according to them, and plainly false; but not so for us, to whom it was not announced by our fathers, nor were the things concerning him handed down, yet who have seen him and received him according to what is said in other places, "a people whom I did not know served me, at the hearing of the ear they obeyed me;" and through the whole prophecy the things concerning him are brought forth more broadly and more clearly, and the things concerning the destruction that has overtaken those who plotted against him are made clear through this: "and I will give the wicked for his burial, and the rich for his death;" "because he committed no iniquity, nor was deceit in his mouth;" for it says they killed such a one, and for this reason they will suffer such things. Following these things, again the church from the gentiles is evangelized, being compared to and preferred over the former

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