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And from the feet up to the head is the wound. From the small to the greater. Therefore they were despaired of. For what greater therapy could have come upon them, after the coming of the Savior, who was able to heal every disease and infirmity of souls and bodies for those who believed? But some say "every head" means each individual person, as in, "Take a census of all the congregation of Israel, by their heads." As if no one was found worthy to escape the threatened penalty. A wound, then, is a breaking of the body's continuity, when some small part of the connection is severed; which can signify the schisms of the Church. A bruise is the mark of a bloody wound, when the body has been crushed by the resistance of what struck it. And this also 1836 in some part consists; which signifies deceitful hearts. But inflammation is a fiery swelling, from the humors flowing to the weak part, and with unnatural heat inflaming the affected area; which signifies the soul's arrogance, being puffed up by irrational conceit, and for this reason lifting itself up against the knowledge of Christ. And he says concerning the Jews that they did not have one distinct suffering, but the evil lies upon them united, so that all the sufferings are completely confused, and each suffering does not receive its appropriate remedies. A mollifying ointment, then, is the word that, with gentleness and reasonableness, humbles vain puffings-up. Oil is that which, with pity and sympathy, smooths out the deceitful, and treacherous, and harsh quality of false speakers in hypocrisy. A bandage is that which holds together things hastening toward separation. But the phrase, "There is no soundness in it," and what follows, Symmachus has rendered thus: "There is nothing healthy in him, but wound, and bruise, and blow, a wound not bound, nor bandaged, nor softened with oil."