67. Why take such delight in that rack of questioning? Quæstionum tormenta. The use of racks and such-like machines (tormenta, fr. torqueo—wist) was resorted to, in the old Roman practice, in the examination (quæstio) of slaves. You hear the name of the Son of God; abolish it, then, or acknowledge His true nature. You hear speak of the womb—acknowledge the truth of undoubted begetting. The ref. is perhaps to Is. xlix. 5. Of His heart—know that here is God’s word. 1 Sam xiii. 14; 2 Sam. vii. 21. Of His right hand—confess His power. Ps. xcviii. 2. Of His face—acknowledge His wisdom. Ps. xxvii. 9. These words are not to be understood, when we speak of God, as when we speak of bodies. The generation of the Son is incomprehensible, the Father begets impassibly, Without suffering any change in Himself. and yet of Himself and in ages inconceivably remote hath very God begotten very God. The Father loves the Son, S. John v. 20. and you anxiously examine His Person; the Father is well pleased in Him, S. Matt. iii. 17; S. Mark i. 11; S. Luke iii. 22. you, joining the Jews, look upon Him with an evil eye; the Father knows the Son, S. John v. 22, 23; iii. 35; xvii. 1, 2, 5. and you join the heathen in reviling Him. S. Luke xxiii. 36, 37.