Isaiah 53:3
Douay-Rheims
Despised, and the most abject of men, a man of sorrows, and acquainted with infirmity: and his look was as it were hidden and despised, whereupon we esteemed him not.
Augustine of Hippo
Christ's deformity is what gives form to you. If he had been unwilling to be deformed, you would never have got back the form you lost. So he hung on the cross, deformed; but his deformity was our beauty.
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A.D. 430 · on Isa 53:3 (SERMON 27:6)
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