being himself healer and medicine both in one

“Yet he himself bore our sicknesses, and he carried our pains; but we in turn regarded him stricken, struck down by God, and afflicted. But he was pierced because of our rebellion, crushed because of our iniquities; punishment for our peace was on him, and we are healed by his wounds. ” — Isaiah 53:4-5

Meditation

Reflect on these words about the passion of the Lord Jesus:

As the use of remedies is the way to health, so this remedy took up sinners to heal and restore them.

And just as surgeons, when they bind up wounds, do it not in a slovenly way, but carefully, that there may be a certain degree of neatness in the binding, in addition to its mere usefulness, so our medicine, Wisdom, was by his assumption of humanity adapted to our wounds, curing some of them by their opposites, some of them by their likes.

And just as he who ministers to a bodily hurt in some cases applies contraries, as cold to hot, moist to dry, etc., and in other cases applies likes, as a round cloth to a round wound, or an oblong cloth to an oblong wound, and does not fit the same bandage to all limbs, but puts like to like; in the same way the Wisdom of God in healing man has applied himself to his cure,

‍ ‍being himself healer and medicine both in one.

Augustine