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Reply. The answer is that there was sorrow in Christ, for He
said: "My soul is sorrowful even unto death."[1359] Truly
Christ's sorrow was natural at the thought of the horrible death He
had to endure on the cross; and there was spiritual sorrow because of
the sin of His disciples and of those who would kill Him, and this
sorrow arose from His love for God and for souls and hence it was
supernatural. Thus in the exalted region of Christ's soul there was
sorrow although not in the summit of His soul, because in the highest
part of His intellect He enjoyed the beatific vision; but He most
freely prevented its overflow into the inferior parts of the soul so
that He might deliver Himself up fully to pain, and so be a perfect
holocaust.
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