In the Passion of Our Lord there is a combination of sorrow and consolation. His sorrows were beyond all the united sorrows of the human race; for He carried all the burden of our sins, the sole source of all our miseries, with the full sense of the weight of them, which is deficient in us at present. "Surely He hath borne our infirmities and carried our sorrows . . . the chastisement of our peace was upon Him" (ISA. 1iii, 4, 5). His afflictions were both of body and mind, they filled every sense and faculty of His Human nature, and there was none capable of consoling Him or helping Him. "The waters have come in, even to My soul. . . I am come into the depths of the sea, and the tempest hath overwhelmed Me" (Ps. 1xviii, 2, 3).
