55. Unless, peradventure, you thought it was
weakness, you wretches, when you saw His wounds. Truly, they were
wounds piercing His Body, but there was no weakness betokened by that
wound, whence flowed the Life of all, and therefore was it that the
prophet said: “By His stripes we are
healed.” Isa. liii. 5. Was He,
then, Who was not weak in the hour when He was wounded, weak in regard
of His Sovereignty? How, then, I ask? When He commanded the
devils, and forgave the offences of sinners? S. Luke v. 20. Or when He made entreaty to the
Father?