When evening had come, they brought to Him many who were demon-possessed. And He cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all who were sick, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet, saying: “He Himself took our infirmities And bore our sicknesses.” Matthew 8:16-17
He healed all who were sick. Some of them were undoubtedly elect. But I presume not all of them. And yet He healed all who were sick, whether elect or not. He bore their infirmities. He died for the sins of the whole world.
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A Declaration of Faith
There is one God, the Father of the living Word, who is His subsistent Wisdom and Power and Eternal Image: perfect Begetter of the perfect Begotten, Father of the only-begotten Son.
There is one Lord, Only of the Only, God of God, Image and Likeness of Deity, Efficient Word, Wisdom comprehensive of the constitution of all things, and Power formative of the whole creation, true Son of true Father, Invisible of Invisible, and Incorruptible of Incorruptible, and Immortal of Immortal and Eternal of Eternal.
And there is One Holy Spirit, having His subsistence from God, and being made manifest by the Son. The Son is the Image of the Father, and the Spirit is that of the Son. Life, the Cause of the living; Holy Fount; Sanctity, the Supplier, or Leader, of Sanctification; in whom is manifested God the Father, who is above all and in all, and God the Son, who is through all.
There is a perfect Trinity, in glory and eternity and sovereignty, neither divided nor estranged. Wherefore there is nothing either created or in servitude in the Trinity. In the Trinity there is nothing either in servitude or created, or super-induced, as if at some former period it was non-existent, and at some later period it was introduced. And thus neither was the Son ever wanting to the Father, nor the Spirit to the Son. Neither again does the unity grow into duality, nor the duality into trinity; or neither does the condition of the one grow into the condition of the two, nor that of the two into the condition of the three, but without variation and without change, the same Trinity abides forever.
Gregory Thaumaturgus
