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Chapter II.—Christ’s true passion.
Now, He suffered all these
things for our sakes, that we might be saved. And He suffered truly, even
as also He truly raised up Himself, not, as certain unbelievers maintain,
that He only seemed to suffer, as they themselves only seem to be
[Christians]. And as they believe, so shall it happen unto them, when
they shall be divested of their bodies, and be mere evil spirits.984
| 984 Or, “seeing that they
are phantasmal and diabolical,” as some render, but the above is
preferable. |
Now, He suffered all these things for us;
and He suffered them really, and not in appearance only, even as also He
truly rose again. But not, as some of the unbelievers, who are ashamed of
the formation of man, and the cross, and death itself, affirm, that in
appearance only, and not in truth, He took a body of the Virgin, and
suffered only in appearance, forgetting, as they do, Him who said,
“The Word was made flesh;”985
and again,
“Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it
up;”986
and once more, “If I
be lifted up from the earth, I will draw all men unto Me.”987
The Word therefore did dwell in flesh, for
“Wisdom built herself an house.”988
The Word raised up again His own temple on the third day, when it
had been destroyed by the Jews fighting against Christ. The Word, when
His flesh was lifted up, after the manner of the brazen serpent in the
wilderness, drew all men to Himself for their eternal salvation.989
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