10. Now first of all, before we shew from these very texts, that He was subject to no infirmity of fear or sorrow on His own account, let us ask, “What can we find for Him to fear, that the dread of an unendurable pain should have seized Him?” The objects of His fear, which they allege, are, I suppose, suffering and death. Now I ask those who are of this opinion, “Can we reasonably suppose that He feared death, Who drove away the terrors of death from His Apostles, exhorting them to the glory of martyrdom with the words, He that doth not take his cross and follow after Me is not worth of Me; and, He that findeth his life shall lose it, and he that hath lost his life for My sake shall find it605    St. Matt. x. 38, 39.? If to die for Him is life, what pain can we think He had to suffer in the mystery of death, Who rewards with life those who die for Him? Could death make Him fear what could be done to the body, when He exhorted the disciples, Fear not those which kill the body606    St. Matt. x. 28.?

10. Mortem haud recte dicitur timuisse, quam docuit non timendam.---Ac primum ante quam ex his ipsis dictis demonstremus, nec metuendi de se in eum infirmitatem incidisse aliquam, nec dolendi: quaerendum est quidnam videatur timere potuisse, ut in eum formido intolerandi doloris inciderit. Et puto non alia hic ad timendum, quam passionis et mortis, causa praetenditur. Et interrogo eos, qui hoc ita existimant, an ratione subsistat, ut mori timuerit, qui omnem ab Apostolis terrorem mortis apellens, ad gloriam eos sit martyrii adhortatus, 0350B dicens: Qui non accipit crucem suam et sequitur me, non est me dignus: et qui invenit animam suam, perdet illam: et qui perdiderit eam propter me, inveniet eam (Matth. X, 38, 39). Cum enim pro eo mori vita sit; quid ipse in mortis sacramento doluisse existimandus est, qui pro se morientibus vitam rependat? Et cum non timendos esse qui corpus occiderent monet (Ibid., 28); ipsum illum mors ad timorem passionis corporalis exterruit?