Chapter 4 (44): On Christ'S Sorrow And Its Cause According To The Same.—
Distinction XV | 65 not have a nature able to feel pain.'' And so his flesh is not to be judged according to the nature of our body. Nor did suffering have dominion over him. Hence he also did not have a nature to fear or to be sad, because he did not have such a nature as might contain a cause of fear or sorrow.
Therefore in him there was no necessity to fear, as there is in us; nor was there in him a nature of suffering, as there is in us.
6. Hilary, in the book On the Synod: "Although these kinds of suffering affect the weakness of the flesh, yet God the Word, made flesh, could not become changeable by suffering. Indeed, although the Word that was made flesh subjected himself to the passion, he nevertheless was not changed by the passibility of suffering. For he was able to suffer, and yet was not able to be passible, because passibility pertains to a weak nature; but passion is the bearing of those things which are inflicted.'"®
Chapter 4 (44)
ON CHRIST'S SORROW AND ITS CAUSE ACCORDING TO THE SAME.—
HILARY. And yet, he next asserts that there was sorrow in Christ, but that the cause of it was not his own death, but the failure of Peter and the other Apostles.—For he says that Christ was sorrowful not because of his own death, but unto death; he states as follows: "I ask what it means to be sorrowful unto death.' To be sorrowful 'because of death' cannot mean the same as 'unto death' because, when the sorrow is 'because of death,' then death is the cause of the sadness; but when sorrow is 'unto death,' then death is not the cause of the sorrow, but its end. And so this sorrow was not taken up because of death in order to be removed through death.' "Therefore it is not for himself that he is sorrowful, but for those who were going to be scandalized because of the weakness of the flesh: he admonishes them to pray, lest they be lead into temptation,' who earlier had promised that they would not be scandalized."*"
7Above, n2.
'Hilary, De synodis, n49.
Mt. 26, 38.
*Hilary, De Trinitate, bk 10, n36.
° 3Mt. 26, 41.
'Mt. 26, 33-35.
*Hilary, De Trinitate, bk 10, n37.