SIXTH MEDITATION OF OUR SAVIOR'S PASSION ~ LUCY HERBERT
DUCCIO di Buoninsegna
Jesus before Annas (scene 8)
1308-11
VI. Meditation.
CONSIDER how Christ having been taken in the garden, bound hand
and foot and his whole body laden
with chains, is, presented before Annas where he is accused of speaking arrogantly to the High Priest; for which he
receives a box on the ear, from a hand
armed with a Gauntlet, which was no
less painful than injurious and affronting. The wicked High Priest, and all that
were about him, scoffed and laughed to see our Lord is struck. Reflect a little
who it is that is thus treated as speaking
arrogantly? 'Tis no less than God himself. King of kings, and Lord of lords,
the wisdom of the Eternal Father; and shall so great a Majesty receive so injurious an affront for speaking to a vile
wretched man, a Rascal, guilty of all sorts of wickedness?
Admire, that the earth does not dissolve at so great a prodigy of impiety;
that a thunderbolt does not crush that
impious hand, and that the angels can suffer such an injury done to God!
Admire again and again the infinite love^
of God, who binds his own hands with
the chains of his love for us, that
he might not revenge the injuries done
to his Son! Admire still more his
goodness in suffering you, who have so often buffeted him, and have so
little profited by so great an example
of Patience, as not to be able to suffer the least injury, flight, or affront, for
his sake.
LUCY HERBERT
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