Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers — Second Series Vol. 03 — From his homily on Thanksgiving:--
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Work: Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers — Second Series Volume 3
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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers Second Series Vol. 3
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"Wherefore when He wept over His friend He shewed His participation in human nature and set us free from two extremes, suffering us neither to grow over soft in suffering nor to be insensible to pain. As then the Lord suffered hunger after solid food had been digested, and thirst when the moisture in His body was exhausted; and was aweary when His nerves and sinews were strained by His journeying, it was not that His divinity was weighed down with toil, but that His body showed the wonted symptoms of its nature. Thus too when He allowed Himself to weep He permitted the flesh to take is…
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- Christian Classics Ethereal Library — NPNF2-03 UTF-8 text
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