"That it may be fulfilled, which was spoken of by Isaiah the prophet,
Saying, Himself took our infirmaties and bare our sicknesses."
Effectuation through miracles, is albeit a full spiritual parable
Of the impact of the deeper fulfillment of His redemptive intent:
All sickness has an intimate connection to the fallen soul;
As it is also with the grief and sorrow that life gathers;
For the healing act absorbs the bitter draught of the abject heart,
And heavy, therefore, was the weight of the affliction He bore.
He knew and transported all in the bond of deliverance;
So by the power of the unparalleled sympathy of pure Grace,
The gall of the load is shifted unto Him; onto His shoulders.
"In all their affliction, He was afflicted"
The same measure meted out to Job by his friends,
Was again allotted and administered unto Him,
At the impulse of the very same doctrinal prepossession;
Measuring the sin of the sufferer by the suffering he endures.
'He must have been of great evil portent to suffer so';
The always rough and ready verdict of the self righteous.
They presuppose that only transgression begets affliction;
However, in this place, the transgressions are of others,
Yet the withering blows and affliction are allotted to Him.
"For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the Just for the unjust,
That He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh,
But quickened by the Spirit."
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