Augustine of Hippo, on 2Cor 11:29

“Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is scandalized, and I am not on fire?”

“You do not require me to teach you in what sense the apostle says, "To the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews," and other such things in the same passage, which are to be ascribed to the compassion of pitying love, not the artifices of intentional deceit. For he that ministers to the sick becomes as if he were sick himself; not, indeed, falsely pretending to be under the fever, but considering, with the mind of one truly sympathizing, what he would wish done for himself if he were in the sick man's place.”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.