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Translated by Allan Menzies.
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This Saviour, then, having humbled the calumniator by humbling Himself, abides with the visible sun before His illustrious church, tropically called the moon, from generation to generation. And having by His passion destroyed His enemies, He who is strong in battle and a mighty Lord [4974] required after His mighty deeds a purification which could only be given Him by His Father alone; and this is why He forbids Mary to touch Him, saying, [4975] "Touch Me not, for I am not yet ascended to My Father; but go and tell My disciples, I go to My Father and your Father, to My God and your God." And when He comes, loaded with victory and with trophies, with His body which has risen from the dead,--for what other meaning can we see in the words, "I am not yet ascended to My Father," and "I go unto My Father,"--then there are certain powers which say, Who is this that cometh from Edom, red garments from Bosor; this that is beautiful? [4976] Then those who escort Him say to those that are upon the heavenly gates, [4977] "Lift up your gates, ye rulers, and be ye lifted up, ye everlasting doors, and the king of glory shall come in." But they ask again, seeing as it were His right hand red with blood and His whole person covered with the marks of His valour, "Why are Thy garments red, and Thy clothes like the treading of the full winefat when it is trodden?" And to this He answers, "I have crushed them." For this cause He had need to wash "His robe in wine, and His garment in the blood of the grape." [4978] For when He had taken up our infirmities and carried our diseases, and had borne the sin of the whole world, and had conferred blessings on so many, then, perhaps, He received that baptism which is greater than any that could ever be conceived among men, and of which I think He speaks when He says, [4979] "I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how am I straitened till it be accomplished?"
[4974] Ps. xxiv. 8.
[4975] John xx. 17.
[4976] Isa. lxiii. 1.
[4977] Ps. xxiv. 7, 9.
[4978] Gen. xlix. 2.
[4979] Luke xii. 50.
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