31. Yet, I suppose, you will arm yourself also for your godless contention with these words of the Lord, My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me632    St. Mark xv. 34.; St. Matt. xxvii. 46.? Perhaps you think that after the disgrace of the cross, the favour of His Father’s help departed from Him, and hence His cry that He was left alone in His weakness. But if you regard the contempt, the weakness, the cross of Christ as a disgrace, you should remember His words, Verily I say unto you, From henceforth ye shall see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of power, and coming with the clouds of Heaven633    St. Matt. xxvi. 64; cf. xvi. 27..

31. An derelictum se conquestus sit.---Sed, credo, te ad impietatis tuae pugnam etiam dicto dominicae vocis armabis: Deus, Deus meus, quare me dereliquisti (Marc. XV, 34)? Post contumeliam enim crucis, forte dignationem ab eo paterni auxilii existimes recessisse, et hinc desolatae infirmitatis suae querelam exstitisse. Si tibi itaque in Christo contemptus et infirmitas et crux contumelia est; oportuerat te dicti hujus immemorem non fuisse: Verum dico vobis, amodo videbitis 0369B filium hominis sedentem a dextris virtutis, et venientem cum nubibus coeli (Matth. XXVI, 64).