the passion of Christ

We must therefore seek out the times foretold both of the future birth of Christ and of his passion, and of the destruction of the city of Jerusalem — that is, of its devastation.

Now if your hardness of heart spurns and mocks all these interpretations, we will prove that the foretold death of Christ can suffice, so that from this — that the manner of the death was not stated — it is understood to have come about by the cross, and that the passion of the cross was to be assigned to none but him whose death was foretold.

Consider that in the plot against our Lord also it was the chief priests and scribes and elders who contrived the treachery, and that few of the common people were found who genuinely received the word;

Since, then, every soul at the time of the Passion was subjected, as it were, to a certain discrimination, according to the saying of the Lord, who said, "You shall all be made to stumble in me," Symeon prophesies concerning Mary herself:

And, having shown much insolence toward him, at the last they condemned him to the cross.

Unless perhaps you take it to mean some woodland king of the Jews, and not Christ — who from that time reigned from the wood of the cross, having conquered death.

Concerning his end, plainly, I think, they bring in difficulty when challenged, denying that the passion of the cross was proclaimed concerning the Christ of the Creator, and arguing besides that it is not to be believed that the Creator exposed his son to that kind of death which he himself had cursed.

But the animal and carnal Christ suffers, in delineation of the superior Christ, who, for the forming of Achamoth, had leaned upon the Cross, that is, Horos, with a substantival, not a cognitional, form.

reckoned also among the wicked, His hands and feet pierced, suffering a casting of lots over His garment, and bitter draughts, and the noddings of mocking heads, valued at thirty pieces of silver by the betrayer.