32. Where, pray, can you see fear in His
Passion? Where weakness? Or pain? Or dishonour?
Do the godless say He feared? But He proclaimed with His own lips
His willingness to suffer. Do they maintain that He was
weak? He revealed His power, when His pursuers were stricken with
panic and dared not face Him. Do they contend that He felt the
pain of the wounds in His flesh? But He shewed, when He restored
the wounded flesh of the ear, that, though He was flesh, He did not
feel the pain of fleshly wounds. The hand which touched the
wounded ear belonged to His body: yet that hand created an ear
out of a wound: how then can that be the hand of a body which was
subject to weakness?