And once again Max., ibid., the Gospel tells us that, He, having come into the place, said ‘I thirst’: and they gave Him some vinegar mixed with gall, and when He had tasted it He would not drink St. Matt. xxvii. 33 and 34; St. John xix. 28 and 29.. If, then, on the one hand it was as God that He suffered thirst and when He had tasted would not drink, surely He must be subject to passion ἐμπαθής, passible, sensible, possessed of sensibility. also as God, for thirst and taste are passions πάθος, sensibility.. But if it was not as God but altogether as man that He was athirst, likewise as man He must be endowed with volition In N. is added: καὶ εἰ ἐν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ τοῦ πάθους λέγει· Πάτερ, εἰ δυνατὸν, παρελθέτω τὸ ποτήριον τοῦτο ἀπ᾽ ἐμοῦ. Πλὴν οὐχ ὡς ἐγὼ θέλω, ἀλλ᾽ ὡς σύ. ᾽Ιδοὺ δύο θελήσεις, θεϊκὴ ἅμα καὶ ἀνθρωπίνη..