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| Chapter CI.—Christ refers all things to the Father
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Chapter CI.—Christ refers all things
to the Father
“Then what follows of the
Psalm is this, in which He says: ‘Our fathers trusted in Thee; they
trusted, and Thou didst deliver them. They cried unto Thee, and were not
confounded. But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised
of the people;’ which show that He admits them to be His fathers,
who trusted in God and were saved by Him, who also were the fathers of
the Virgin, by whom He was born and became man; and He foretells that He
shall be saved by the same God, but boasts not in accomplishing anything
through His own will or might. For when on earth He acted in the very
same manner, and answered to one who addressed Him as ‘Good
Master:’ ‘Why callest thou me good? One is good, my Father
who is in heaven.’2335
But when He says,
‘I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the
people,’ He prophesied the things which do exist, and which happen
to Him. For we who believe on Him are everywhere a reproach,
‘despised of the people;’ for, rejected and dishonoured by
your nation, He suffered those indignities which you planned against Him.
And the following: ‘All they that see me laughed me to scorn; they
spake with the lips, they shook the head: He trusted in the Lord; let Him
deliver him, since he desires Him;’ this likewise He foretold
should happen to Him. For they that saw Him crucified shook their heads
each one of them, and distorted their lips, and twisting their noses to
each other,2336
| 2336 The text is
corrupt, and the meaning doubtful. Otto translates: naribus inter se
certantes. | they spake in mockery the words which are
recorded in the memoirs of His apostles: ‘He said he was the Son of
God: let him come down; let God save him.’E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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