11. He wept for what affected us, not Himself; for
the Godhead sheds no tears;
but He wept in that nature in which He
was sad; He wept in that in which He was crucified, in that in which He
died, in that in which He was buried. He wept in that which the
prophet this day brought to our minds: “Mother Sion shall
say, A man, yea, a man was made in her, and the Most High Himself
established her.” Ps. lxxxvii.
[lxxxvi.] 5. He wept in
that nature in which He called Sion Mother, born in Judæa,
conceived by the Virgin. But according to His Divine Nature He
could not have a mother, for He is the Creator of His mother. So
far as He was made, it was not by divine but by human generation,
because He was made man, God was born.