44. There was, then, no place for human anxiety and trepidation in that nature, which was more than human. It was superior to the ills of earthly flesh; a body not sprung from earthly elements, although His origin as Son of Man was due to the mystery of the conception by the Holy Ghost. The power of the Most High imparted its power to the body which the Virgin bare from the conception of the Holy Ghost. The animated body derives its conscious existence from association with a soul, which is diffused throughout it, and quickens it to perceive pains inflicted from without. Thus the soul, warned by the happy glow of its own heavenly faith and hope, soars above its own origin in the beginnings of an earthly body, and raises663    Reading efficit. that body to union with itself in thought and spirit, so that it ceases to feel the suffering of that which, all the while, it suffers. Why need we then say more about the nature of the Lord’s body, that of the Son of Man Who came down from heaven? Even earthly bodies can sometimes be made indifferent to the natural necessities of pain and fear.

44. Christus ab humanis vitiis liber. Sensus unde.---Non est itaque in ea natura, quae supra 352 hominem 0378A est, humanae trepidationis anxietas: et extra terreni est corporis mala, non terrenis inchoatum corpus elementis, etsi originem filii hominis sanctus Spiritus per sacramentum conceptionis invexit. Nempe et Altissimi virtus, virtutem corporis, quod ex conceptione Spiritus virgo gignebat, admiscuit. Nam cum per transfusae in corpus animae consortium, sensus animati corporis vivat, et ipsum ad illatorum dolorem corpus anima corpori permixta vivificet; quae ubi coelestis spei ac fidei suae beato calore, terrenae in corpore suo originis despexit exordium, sui quoque sensus ac spiritus corpus efficitur in dolore, ut pati se desinat sentire quod patitur: et quid nobis de natura dominici corporis, et descendentis de coelo filii hominis adhuc sermo 0378B sit? Ipsa terrena corpora timere ac dolere interdum nesciunt, quod et doleri necesse est et timeri.