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 the piercing of the Logos, the blood of the Logos, the wound of the Logos, the nailing of the Logos, the passion of the Logos, the nailing of the Logos, the death of the Logos. And thus speak I, separating off the manhood. Think thou, therefore, in the first place of the Logos, then shalt thou perceive the Lord, and in the third place the man, and what he hath suffered.

102. "When he had spoken unto me these things, and others which I know not how to say as he would have me, he was taken up, no one of the multitude having beheld him. And when I went down, I laughed them all to scorn, inasmuch as he had told me the things which they said concerning him; and I held firmly this one thing in myself, that the Lord contrived all things symbolically and by a dispensation toward men, for their conversion and salvation.

103. "Having therefore beheld, brethren, the grace of the Lord and his kindly affection toward us, let us worship him as those unto whom he hath shown mercy. Not with our fingers, neither with our mouths, nor with the tongue, neither with any part of our body, whatsoever, but with the disposition of our soul, even him, who became man apart from this body. And let us watch because now also he keepeth ward over prisons for our sakes, in tombs also, in bonds and dungeons, in shame and reproaches, by sea and land, at scourgings, condemnations, conspiracies, frauds, punishments, and, in a word, he is with all of us, and suffereth with us