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God's Everlasting Care

God promises to carry and save His people from old age to the end.

Even to old age I am the one, and even to gray hairs I will carry you. I made you, and I will bear you; I will carry you and I will save you.✦1 15. xlvi.✦ 4.

The Suffering Servant

Christ bore our infirmities, sorrows, and iniquities, bringing us peace and healing.

Truly He Himself has borne our infirmities, and He Himself has carried our sorrows.✦ Isa.2 liii.3 4.✦ He was wounded for our iniquities; He was crushed for our crimes. The punishment that brought us peace fell upon Him, and by His wounds we have been healed.4 Verse. 5.5 All of us, like sheep, have gone astray; each one has turned to his own way; and God has laid on Him the iniquities of us all.✦ Verse.6 6.7

God's Swift Answer

God promises to answer His people before they even call out to Him.

And it will be that before they cry out, I will answer; while they are still speaking, I will hear.✦

The Call to Repentance

God declares His desire for the wicked to turn from their ways and live, not die.

Is it my will that the wicked die, and not rather that he turn from his ways and live?8 Turn back, and turn away from all your iniquities, and iniquity will not be your ruin. Verse.9 30. As I live, I do not want the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn back, turn back from your most evil ways—and why will you die, house of Israel?✦10 The wickedness of the wicked will not harm him on whatever day he turns—✦1112 he turns away from his sin.13 Verse. 12.

Abundant Forgiveness

God promises life to the repentant and rich forgiveness to all who return to Him.

And when the wicked person turns away from his wickedness and does what is just and right, he will live by them. Verse.14 19.✦15 Let the wicked leave his way, and the unjust man his thoughts, and let him return to the Lord, and He will have mercy on him, and to our God, for He is rich in forgiveness—✦16 forgiving.✦17 Isa.18 55.✦19 7.✦

Read the original Latin

Usque ad senectam Ego Ipse, et usque ad canos Ego portabo: Ego feci, et Ego feram, Ego portabo et salvabo. 15. xlvi. 4.

Vere languores nostros Ipse tulit, et dolores nostros Ipse portavit. s. hii. 4.

Ipse vulneratus est propter iniquitates nostras, attritus est propter scelera nostra ;

Disciplina pacis nostrz: super Eum: et livore Ejus sanati sumus. Vers. Ὁ»

Omnes nos quasi oves erravimus, unusquisque in viam suam declinavit; et posuit Deus in Eum iniquitates omnium nostrum. Vers. 6.

Eritque, antequam clament, Ego exaudiam ; adhuc illis loquentibus, Ego audiam.

Nunquid voluntatis Mezse est mors impii, et non ut convertatur a viis suis, et vivat?

Convertimini, et avertimini ab omnibus iniquitatibus vestris, et non erit vobis in ruinam iniquitas. Vers. 30.

Vivo Ego; nolo mortem impii, sed ut convertatur impius a via sua, et vivat.

Convertimini, convertimini a vlis vestris pessimis: et quare moriemini, domus Israel? Impietas impii non nocebit ei in quaeunque die con-

versus fuerit ab iniquitate sua. Vers. 12.

Et cum recesserit impius ab impietate sua, feceritque judicium et justitiam, vivet in iis. Vers. 19. Derelinquat impius viam suam, et vir iniquus cogitationes suas, et revertatur ad Dominum, et miserebitur ejus, et ad Deum nostrum, quia multus est ad iguoscen-

dum. 4s. lv. 7.

Scripture echoes

  1. ↩Isa.46.4 — Even to your old age I am the same, and even to your graying years I will carry you. I have made you, and I will bear you; I will carry you and I will deliver you.
  2. ↩Isa.46.4 — Even to your old age I am the same, and even to your graying years I will carry you. I have made you, and I will bear you; I will carry you and I will deliver you.
  3. ↩Isa.53.4 — And Surely he carried our sicknesses and bore our pains, yet we considered him stricken, struck by God, and afflicted.
  4. ↩Isa.53.4 — And Surely he carried our sicknesses and bore our pains, yet we considered him stricken, struck by God, and afflicted.
  5. ↩Isa.53.6 — All of us, like sheep, have gone astray; each of us has turned to our own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
  6. ↩Isa.65.24 — And it shall be that before they call, I will answer; while they are still speaking, I will hear.
  7. ↩Ezek.33.11 — Say to them, 'As I live, declares the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn, turn from your evil ways! For why should you die, O house of Israel?'
  8. ↩Ezek.33.12 — And you, son of man, say to your people: The righteousness of the righteous will not deliver him on the day of his transgression, and the wickedness of the wicked will not make him stumble on the day he turns from his wickedness. And the righteous will not be able to live by his righteousness on the day he sins.
  9. ↩Isa.55.7 — Let the wicked forsake his way, and the man of iniquity his thoughts; and let him return to the LORD, and He will have mercy on him, and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon.
  10. ↩Isa.55.7 — Let the wicked forsake his way, and the man of iniquity his thoughts; and let him return to the LORD, and He will have mercy on him, and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon.
  11. ↩Isa.55.7 — Let the wicked forsake his way, and the man of iniquity his thoughts; and let him return to the LORD, and He will have mercy on him, and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon.
  12. ↩Isa.55.7 — Let the wicked forsake his way, and the man of iniquity his thoughts; and let him return to the LORD, and He will have mercy on him, and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon.
  13. ↩Isa.55.7 — Let the wicked forsake his way, and the man of iniquity his thoughts; and let him return to the LORD, and He will have mercy on him, and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon.

Notes

  1. 1 ↩Latin has no explicit object after feci/feram/portabo/salvabo; English supplies 'you' as the natural addressee implied by the divine speech (carrying and saving the people addressed).
  2. 2 ↩Source surface is 's.'; treated as the truncated book abbreviation 'Is.' (Isaiah), matching the citation pattern of the neighboring section.
  3. 3 ↩Source surface is 'hii.'; most plausible intended reading is Roman numeral 'liii.' (53), with l→h corruption, completing Isaiah 53:4 with the following '4.'
  4. 4 ↩Source reading 'nostrz' is treated as corrupt for 'nostrae' (our), the expected Vulgate form in Isa 53:5.
  5. 5 ↩Source text 'Ὁ»' is unintelligible as Greek/Latin; given the neighboring section ends with verse label '6.', this is almost certainly a corrupt verse number '5.'
  6. 6 ↩Rubric abbreviation Vers. for Versiculus (versicle), marking the next liturgical response line.
  7. 7 ↩Printed item/verse number only, not a full sentence.
  8. 8 ↩Source reads “Mezse,” almost certainly a corrupt form of “meae” (my); translated as “my will” on that reading (cf. Ezek 18:23 Vulgate: Nunquid voluntatis meae est mors impii…).
  9. 9 ↩Latin 'Vers.' is a liturgical rubric abbreviation for Versus (Verse); rendered in full for modern readability rather than left as an opaque abbreviation.
  10. 10 ↩Source reads «vlis»; treated as «viis» (ways), the standard Vulgate reading in this Ezekiel address.
  11. 11 ↩Printed line ends mid-word at «con-»; sense completed from the obvious line-break and neighboring continuation («versus fuerit ab iniquitate sua» → conversus fuerit…).
  12. 12 ↩«quaeunque» read as «quacumque» (on whatever day).
  13. 13 ↩Continues the previous section’s broken word: con- + versus = conversus. Reading as conversus fuerit ab iniquitate sua (Ezek. 33:12).
  14. 14 ↩Liturgical rubric abbreviation Vers. for Versus (verse).
  15. 15 ↩Bare verse number; neighboring text points toward Isaiah 55:7, but final resolution is deferred.
  16. 16 ↩Source ends mid-word as iguoscen-; treated as line-broken ignoscendum (to forgive), completed by next section dum.
  17. 17 ↩Standalone 'dum.' continues the previous section's hyphenated break 'iguoscen-' / 'ignoscen-'; the intended full form is 'ignoscendum' in 'multus est ad ignoscendum' (he is free to forgive / abundant in forgiving).
  18. 18 ↩Source reading '4s.' is treated as a corrupt form of the book label 'Is.' (Isaias / Isaiah), matching the citation pattern after the quoted verse.
  19. 19 ↩Latin 'lv.' is Roman numeral LV = 55, the chapter of the Isaiah citation.

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