1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible

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Isaiah 53:4 *Surely he hath borne our infirmities and carried our sorrows: and we have thought him as it were a leper, and as one struck by God and afflicted.

Matthew 8:17.
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, ver. 3., and 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)