majesty of Christ is adequately known only to the Father, and until He reveals it to us we shall never fathom the depths of Christ's voluntary humiliation. Of all created beings, in fact, man seems the least affected at Christ's sufferings, for while the sun grew dark and the earth quaked, and even the dead arose, the throng on Calvary scoffed or else looked on unmoved. Still, we perhaps, on sober second thought, can better realize the Passion of Our Lord. Christ, the All- Wise, knew that the greater His sufferings the more perfect would be our Redemption, and being omnipotent and prompted by an infinite love, His sufferings naturally exceeded all bounds. For what will not love, even carnal love, endure for its beloved! Jacob served Laban seven years for Rachel, and they seemed to him but a day because of the greatness of his love. What dreadful torments the martyrs underwent for Christ, finite as was their love, and though limited the power of their persecutors to devise new tortures! In His task of satisfying the infinite demands of divine justice, Christ's knowledge and power and choice and charity knew no such limitations. Sustained by their heavenly Comforter, the martyrs exulted amid their agonies, but in His Passion Christ seems to have denied Himself the smallest consolation. In the sixteenth chapter of Leviticus we read how a sin-offering of two goats was made, one of which was sacrificed and the other allowed to go into the wilderness. These animals prefigured Christ's dual nature, the divine temporarily withdrawing itself while the human expiated the sins
