53. Many things therefore we read and believe, in
the light of the sacrament of the Incarnation. But even in the
very feelings of our human nature we may behold the Divine
Majesty. Jesus is wearied with His journey, that He may refresh
the weary; He desires to drink, when about to give spiritual drink to
the thirsty; He was hungry, when about to supply the food of salvation
to the hungry; He dies, to live again; He is buried, to rise again; He
hangs upon the dreadful tree, to strengthen those in dread; He veils
the heaven with thick darkness, that He may give light; He makes the
earth to shake, that He may make it strong; He rouses the sea, that He
may calm it; He opens the tombs of the dead, that He may show they are
the homes of the living; He is made of a Virgin, that men may believe
He is born of God; He feigns not to know, that He may make the ignorant
to know; as a Jew He is said to worship, that the Son may be worshipped
as true God.