“By forgiving his sins, Jesus cured the man who was paralyzed, and showed in a visible way who he was. If God alone can forgive sins and the Lord forgave and cured men, then he is the Word of God made Son of man, with the power to forgive sins, both as man and as God. As man, he shared our poor nature; as God, he took pity on us and forgave our sins” (St Irenaeus, Adversus haereses, 5, 17, 3).
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