“My Lord Jesus Christ, when he assumed the flesh of the Virgin for our salvation, was surely glorified, because "he came to seek what was lost," though he was not "glorified gloriously." In fact, it is said precisely of him, "We saw him, and he had neither beauty nor splendor, and his face was more to be despised than…”
Origen of Alexandria, 3th c. — HOMILIES ON EXODUS 6:1
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20Let us condemn him with a shameful death: for by his own saying he shall be respected.
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18For if the just man be the son of God, he will help him, and deliver him from the hand of his enemies.
19Let us examine him with despitefulness and torture, that we may know his meekness, and prove his patience.
— Wisdom of Solomon 2:20 —
21Such things they did imagine, and were deceived: for their own wickedness hath blinded them.
22As for the mysteries of God, they kn ew them not: neither hoped they for the wages of righteousness, nor discerned a reward for blameless souls.