Annotatio CLXXXII

”Because strangers have risen up against me.” — Psalm 53:5

Hilary, in the commentaries on the Psalms, seems to hint that thirst, hunger, sleep, sadness, grief, weariness, and other passions of this kind were not natural to the humanity of Christ, but assumed [voluntarily taken on];¹ for thus he speaks to the exposition of the proposed verse: “Hence that [fact], that he hungered, thirsted, slept, was wearied, and wept, and suffered, and died. And that he might be understood to be subject to all these things not by nature, but by [voluntary] assumption, having gone through them all, he rose again.” Read Annotation 186 of this book.