Who has taught the evangelists the qualities of a perfectly heroic
soul, that they paint it so perfectly in Jesus Christ? Why do they
make Him weak in His agony? Do they know how to paint a resolute
death? Yes, for the same Saint Luke paints the death of Saint Stephen
as braver than that of Jesus Christ.
They make him therefore capable of fear, before the necessity of dying has come, and then altogether brave.
But When they make Him so troubled, it is when He afflicts Himself; and when men afflict Him, he is altogether strong.
Pascal: Pensées.
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