That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet, saying, He himself took our infirmities, and bore our sicknesses.
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Rabanus Maurus
AD 856
Sunset shadows forth the passion and death of Him Who said, “While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.” Who while He lived temporally in the flesh, taught only a few of the Jews; but having trodden under foot the kingdom of death, promised the gifts of faith to all the Gentiles throughout the world.