Thomas Aquinas

It should be noted that the evangelists have not recounted all of Christ's miracles, but the better known. And because it seemed marvelous to cure so many, he supports it with a text from Isaiah (53:4): "He took our infirmities and bore our diseases." And although it does not follow the order of the text, let us explain it as presented. He took our infirmities, where infirmities refer to light sins; and diseases, i.e., greater sins, he bore, i.e., carried away. …

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