Christ, if we think it was these things which made Him “a man of sorrows.” Yet He was a “man of sorrows.” He said in Gethsemane: “My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death” —Matthew 26:38 But habitually He speaks of His joyfulness. This is the paradox of Christ’s life. “A man of sorrows and acquainted with grief;” —Isaiah 53:3 yet bearing those sorrows upon a flood-tide, as it were, of a mighty joy. And the joy was more than the sorrow. An exultant and joyful man of sorrows—let us try to understand