10. He was truly crucified for our
sins. For if thou wouldest deny it, the place refutes thee
visibly, this blessed Golgotha Eusebius, Life
of Constantine, iii. 28., in which we are now
assembled for the sake of Him who was here crucified; and the whole
world has since been filled with pieces of the wood of the
Cross The discovery of
the “True Cross” is related with many marvellous
particulars by Socrates, Eccles. Hist. i. 17; and Sozomen, E.
H. ii. 1. A portion was said to have been left by Helena at
Jerusalem, enclosed in a silver case; and another portion sent to
Constantinople, where Constantine privately enclosed it in his own
statue, to be a safeguard to the city. Eusebius, Life of
Constantine, iii. 25–30 , gives a long account of the
discovery of the Holy Sepulchre, but makes no mention of the
Cross. Cyril seems to have been the first to record it, 25 years
after. Cf. Greg. Nyss. Bapt. Christi (p. 519).. But He was crucified not for sins of
His own, but that we might be delivered from our sins. And
though as Man He was at that time despised of men, and was
buffeted, yet He was acknowledged by the Creation as God: for
when the sun saw his Lord dishonoured, he grew dim and trembled, not
enduring the sight.