"Hoc Deus hortatur, hoc lex, hoc passio ChristiSt. Paul declared, and we require no further evidence to convince us that he spoke truly, that Christ crucified was "unto the Jews indeed a stumbling-block, and unto the Gentiles foolishness" (1 Corinthians 1:23). The shock to Pagan feeling, caused by the ignominy of Christ's Passion and the seeming incompatibility of the Divine nature with a felon's death, seems not to have been without its effect upon the thought of Christians themselves.
Ut resurrecturos nos credamus in novo sæclo."
Hi, The sufferings of Our Lord , which culminated in His death upon the cross , seem to have been conceived of as one inseparable whole from a very early period. Even in the Acts of the Apostles (i, 3) St. Luke speaks of those to whom Christ "shewed himself alive after his passion " ( meta to mathein autou ).
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