St. Hippolytus, Bishop and Martyr, in his Homily on the Paschal Supper. He was altogether [1847] in all, and everywhere; and though He filleth the universe up to all the principalities of the air, He stripped Himself again. And for a brief space He cries that the cup might pass from Him, with a view to show truly that He was also man. [1848] But remembering, too, the purpose for which He was sent, He fulfils the dispensation (economy) for which He was sent, and exclaims, "Father, not my will," [1849] and, "The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak." [1850] Footnotes: [1846] From a Homily on the Lord's Paschal Supper, ibid., p. 293. [1847] holos. [1848] kai anthropos, also man. See Grabe, Bull's Defens. Fid. Nic., p. 103. [1849] Luke 22:42. [1850] Matthew 26:41. |
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