Matthew 8:17. That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses.
That is a singular quotation, and it teaches us that Christ has power to heal because he "himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses." Am I not to understand, from the connection here, that Jesus Christ’s power is to be seen in his sufferings, in his humiliation, and specially in his wounds, and in his death? He would have had no power to meet our maladies if he had not himself been compassed with infirmities for our sake. O blessed Master, thou dost teach us where power lies; not in grandeur, but in self-sacrifice; not in personal glory, but in personal humiliation.
Matthew 8:17. That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses.
That is a singular quotation, and it teaches us that Christ has power to heal because he "himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses." Am I not to understand, from the connection here, that Jesus Christ’s power is to be seen in his sufferings, in his humiliation, and specially in his wounds, and in his death? He would have had no power to meet our maladies if he had not himself been compassed with infirmities for our sake. O blessed Master, thou dost teach us where power lies; not in grandeur, but in self-sacrifice; not in personal glory, but in personal humiliation.