47. He is the good Physician, Who has taken
upon Him our infirmities, has healed our sicknesses, and yet He, as it
is written, honoured not Himself to be made a High Priest, but He Who
spake to Him. The Father said: “Thou art My Son, this
day have I begotten Thee.” Heb. v. 5. As
He said in another place: “Thou art a Priest for ever after
the order of Melchisedech.” Who, since He was the type of
all future priests, took our flesh upon Him, that “in the days of
His flesh He might offer prayers and supplications with a loud voice
and tears; and by those things which He suffered, though He was the Son
of God, might seem to learn obedience, which He taught us, that He
might be made to us the Author of Salvation.” Heb. v. 5, quoted loosely. And at last when His sufferings
were completed, as though completed and made perfect Himself, He gave
health to all, He bore the sin of all.