{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/203/2030870.htm","path":"chr/ecf/203/2030870.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/203/2030870.htm","text":"21. But, says some one, \u201cAre these things to be understood of the Lord? Could the Lord be held prisoner by men and dragged to judgment?\u201d Of this also the same Prophet shall convince you. For he says, \u201cThe Lord Himself shall come into judgment with the elders and princes of the people.\u201d 3312 The Lord is judged then according to the Prophet\u2019s testimony, and not only judged, but scourged, and smitten on the face with the palms (of men\u2019s hands), and spitted on, and suffers every insult and indignity for our sake. And because all who should hear these things preached by the Apostles would be perfectly amazed, therefore also the Prophet speaking in their person exclaims, \u201cLord, who hath believed our report?\u201d 3313 For it is incredible that God, the Son of God, should be spoken of and preached as having suffered these things. For this reason they are foretold by the Prophets, lest any doubt should spring up in those who are about to believe. Christ the Lord Himself therefore in His own person, p. 552 says, \u201cI gave My back to the scourges, and My cheeks to the palms, 3314 I turned not away My face from shame and spitting.\u201d 3315 This also is written among His other sufferings, that they bound Him, and led Him away to Pilate. This also the Prophet foretold, saying, \u201cAnd they bound him and conducted Him as a pledge of friendship (xenium) to King Jarim.\u201d 3316 But some one objects, \u201cBut Pilate was not a king.\u201d Hear then what the Gospel relates next, \u201cPilate hearing that He was from Galilee, sent Him to Herod, who was king in Israel at that time.\u201d 3317 And rightly does the Prophet add the name \u201cJarim,\u201d which means \u201ca wild-vine, for Herod was not of the house of Israel, nor of that Israelitish vine which the Lord had brought out of Egypt, and \u201cplanted in a very fruitful hill,\u201d 3318 but was a wild vine, i.e. of an alien stock. Rightly, therefore, was he called \u201ca wild-vine,\u201d because he in nowise sprung from the shoots of the vine of Israel. And whereas the Prophet used the phrase \u201cxenium,\u201d \u201cA pledge of friendship,\u201d this also corresponds, \u201cFor Herod and Pilate,\u201d as the Gospel witnesses, \u201cfrom being enemies were made friends,\u201d 3319 and, as though in token of their reconciliation, each sent Jesus bound to the other. What matter, so long as Jesus, as Saviour, reconciles those who were at variance, and restores peace, and also brings back concord! Wherefore of this also it is written in Job, \u201cMay the Lord reconcile the hearts of the princes of the earth.\u201d 3320\nJob xii. 24 \u0394\u03b9\u03b1\u03bb\u03bb\u03ac\u03c3\u03c3\u03c9\u03bd, LXX.","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol. III: Life a...","type":"page"}