Galatians 3:13 Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written… A man pays a ransom for slaves; but Christ took the slave's place. A doctor gives medicine to a sick man; but Christ "took the disease on Himself." We are told of Sister Dora "that she was in the habit of bringing back to life patients who had sunk into the first stage of the fatal collapse which often precedes death from small-pox, by actually putting her mouth to theirs, and breathing into them, until vitality was restored." ("Sister Dora," by M. Lonsdale.) St. Vincent do Paul was at one time almoner-general to the prison ships in the chief harbours of France, during the reign of Louis XIII. "While visiting those at Marseilles, he was so much struck by the broken-down looks and exceeding sorrowfulness of one of the convicts, that, on discovering his sorrow was less for his own sake than for the misery to which his absence must needs reduce his wife and children, St. Vincent absolutely changed places with the convict. The prisoner went free, whilst St. Vincent wore a convict's chain, did a convict's work, lived on convict fare, and, worst of all, had only convict society. He was soon sought out and released, but the hurts he had received from the pressure of the chains lasted all his life .... After this St. Vincent worked with infinitely more force on the consciences of the convicts for having been for a time one of themselves." (From Miss Yonge's "Book of Golden Deeds.") Parallel Verses KJV: Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree: |
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