It must be clearly understood that this ugly word is here and elsewhere employed to translate passibilis (παθητός) for no reason, except the necessity of the case: pati and πάσχειν are both of far wider and broader signification than “suffer” or its synonyms: they are simply the passive of facere and ποιεῖν (πράσσειν), and there is no proper equivalent in ordinary English parlance. This tendency of terms to become more and more narrow and of particular application is constantly meeting and baffling one in translating the Latin and Greek languages.