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Catena Aurea on Matthew 26:36–38: John Damascene

Athonite fresco painter, Saint John of Damascus (fresco), 14th-15th Century · Public domainAthonite fresco painter, Saint John of Damascus (fresco), 14th-15th Century

CommentJohn DamascenePublic domainMatthew 26:36–38

Wherefore the passions of our nature were in Christ both by nature and beyond nature. By nature, because He left His flesh to suffer the things incidental to it; beyond nature, because these natural emotions did not in Him precede the will. For in Christ nothing befel of compulsion, but all was voluntary; with His will He hungered, with His will He feared, or was sorrowful.

Here His sorrow is declared, “Then saith he unto them, My soul is sorrowful even unto death.”

Reproduced in full. Translation: Oxford 1841 (Newman), public domain (Public domain).

Also cites: Fid. Orth., iii, 20

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