“Because Jesus was crucified and not freed, they believed he was not the Son of God. Thus, insulting him as he hung on the cross, they shook their heads, saying, "If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross. He saved others, but he cannot save himself." With these words, as one reads in the book of Wisdom, "the…”
Augustine of Hippo, 5th c. — EXPOSITIONS OF THE PSALMS 56:4
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21Such things they did imagine, and were deceived: for their own wickedness hath blinded them.
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19Let us examine him with despitefulness and torture, that we may know his meekness, and prove his patience.
20Let us condemn him with a shameful death: for by his own saying he shall be respected.
— Wisdom of Solomon 2:21 —
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.
23For God created man to be immortal, and made him to be an image of his own eternity.