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| 1428 |
'It
was not because of pride in me, but rather I endured misery and pitiless
bodily pain in my young manhood so that through it I might be like
you, and you might come to be like my image, detached from wickedness.
And for the love of men my head suffered insulting blows; often my
cheek endured and my face caught from their mouth the spittle of ruthless
malefactors. Likewise they mixed together for me a drink, sour in
its bitterness, of vinegar and gall. Then in front of the people I
underwent the spitefulness of my foes; they harassed me with torments;
they had no qualms about violence and they flogged me with wips. All
that pain I suffered in humility for you, the mockery and the harsh
talk. Then they wreathed a hard sharp crown about my head and abusively
they crushed it on: it was made of thorns. Then I was hung on a high
tree, fastened to a cross; then with a spear they forthwith shed gore,
the blood from out of my side, to the ground, so that by this you
might be rescued from the tyranny of the devil. Then I, a man without
sins, suffered punishment and evil afflictions until I released from
my body my solely surviving spirit. |
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| 1454 |
'See
now the mortal wounds which you once made in my hands and in my feet
the same, by which I hung cruelly fastened. Here too, visible even
now, you may see in my side the bloody wound. It was indeed and inequable
reckoning between the two of us there. I took on your pain so that
you might enjoy my kingdom, happy and blessed; and with my death I
dearly bought you lasting life, so that you might thereafter dwell
in light, radiant and free from sins. My body, which harmed no one,
lay buried in earth, hidden down in the tomb, so that you might be
bright above in the skies, ranking among the angels. |
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