John Trapp on Matthew 27:26

Verse 26. And when he had scourged Jesus] So [illegible: 1 word] satisfie their cruelty, and move them, if it might be, to pity. But though they relented not at the sight, it's fit we should. Would it not grieve us at the heart, if we should see the Kings son basely whipped by our adversaries, only for our affairs? Christ was scourged when we had offended, that he might free us from the sting of conscience, and those scourges and scorpions of eternall torments, that he might make us a plaister of his own blessed bloud: for by his [illegible: 1 word] medici factus est medicina phrene. tici. stripes we are healed, by the bloudy wails made upon his back we are delivered. We hold it a thing almost beyond belief, that the applying of medicines to the sword that wounded a man, shall make the wounds heal in a man. But here is a mystery that only Christian religion can tell of, and of which there never was president in nature, that the scourging and wounding of one man should cure another. See the Note, on Joh. 19. 1.