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Hilary of Poitiers, on Matt 27:45
Hilary of Poitiers · c. A.D. 310–367
Matt 27:45 · Douay-Rheims
“Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over the whole earth, until the ninth hour.”
On this verse:
“Vinegar is wine, which has turned sour either from neglect, or the fault of the vessel. Wine is the honour of immortality, or virtue. When this then had been turned sour in Adam, He took and drunk it at the hands of the Gentiles. It is offered to Him on a reed and a spunge; that is, He took from the bodies of the Gentiles immortality spoiled and corrupted, and transfused in Himself into a mixture of immortality that in us which was spoiled.”
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.