was thinking of his Passion, seeing my sadness, he said: “ Dost thou not believe, mother, that I am in the Father, and the Father in me ? Wast thou sullied when I entered thee, or in pain when I came forth ? Why art thou contracted by sadness ? For it is the will of my Father, that I suffer death; nay, my will with the Father. What I have of the Father cannot suffer; but the flesh which I took of thee shall suffer, that the flesh of others may be redeemed, and their spirits saved.” He was so obedient, that when Joseph by chance said: Do this or that, he immediately did it, because he so concealed the power of his divinity, that it could not be discerned except by me, and sometimes by Joseph, who both often saw an admirable light poured around him, and heard angelic voices singing over him. We also saw that unclean spirits, which could not be expelled by tried exoroists in our law, departed at the sight of my Son’s presence.
