Providential suffering of the Lord

When the Word says to those who belong to this saving prophecy, “We saw the Lord and he had no form nor beauty, but his form was more despicable and gloomier than all men,” let [us] know the [… Approximately two fragmentary sentences …] all who [are] in the whole world [have no] value before the Father and the Son.

And if he had not been caught, then we would not have escaped even death. We [would] not be alive, instead being dead in our transgression. And if he had not been crucified then we would not escape from wrath in the day of wrath. And if he had not been pierced, then we would not escape being pierced in the day of calamity and affliction that will come upon the whole earth on the day that he [will come] to judge the living and the dead. [If] he had not been judged by a governor, then we would not be saved from the true judgment and [… Approximately one fragmentary sentence …] If he had not grieved, then we would not escape all grief. If he had not wept, there would be no consolation for the whole human race. If he had not been troubled in spirit, and if he had not been mocked, then we would be filled with our mockery and our shame on the day of our visitation. If he had not endured the cross, and if he had not suffered them to put a crown of thorns on his head, then no one would receive the eternal crown. If he had not [… Approximately two fragmentary sentences …] he himself being mocked. And if they had not sat at the tribunal at the place called “Stone Pavement,” or “Gabbatha,” the place where a great crowd […] horse and […] colt gathered in it, [then] no one would sit [on] the thrones in [the] kingdom. [If] he had not been [… Approximately one fragmentary sentence …] angels in the kingdom of heaven. If he had not been sad and had not cried out, then this glory and this grace would not have come about for all the faithful so that [they] might hear, “Enter the joy of your master.”