Ver. 3.—'Deliver me, and set me beside thee, and let whosoever's hand fight against me.' 35. Christ was in bitterness through the passion, and was delivered through the resurrection.—For he himself did not sin in thought or in deed; he himself abode in bitterness through the passion; he himself was delivered through the resurrection; he himself was set beside the Father through the ascension, because, having gone forth into heaven, he sits at the right hand of God. And because after the glory of his ascension Judaea was stirred up in the persecution of his disciples, it is now rightly said: 'And let whosoever's hand fight against me.' For then in his members the fury of the persecutors raged, then against the life of the faithful the flame of cruelty blazed.
But whither would the wicked go, or what would they do, while he whom they persecuted on earth already sat in heaven? Concerning whom it is still subjoined: