8. Now take also another testimony in the
87th Psalm, where Christ
speaks in the Prophets, (for He who then spoke came afterwards among
us): O Lord, God of My salvation, I
have cried day and night before Thee, and a little, farther on,
I became as it were a man without help, free among the
dead Ps. lxxxviii. 1, 4, 5.. He said not,
I became a man without help; but, as it were a man without
help. For indeed He was crucified not from weakness, but
willingly and His Death was not from involuntary weakness. I
was counted with them that go down into the pit Ib. v.
4.. And what is the token? Thou
hast put away Mine acquaintance far from Me Ib. v.
8.
(for the disciples have fled). Wilt Thou shew wonders to the
dead Ib. v.
10.? Then a
little while afterwards: And unto Thee have I cried, O
Lord; and in the morning shall my prayer
come before Thee Ib. v.
13.. Seest thou
how they shew the exact point of the Hour, and of the Passion and of
the Resurrection?