he suffers the conflict of love and wrath within him. In the victory of his love over his wrath God’s pain mediates his love to sinners.64 The analogy of the suffering of human personal love can lead not only in the direction of the theology of the cross, but also to a trinitarian interpretation of the divine suffering: ‘To us the bitterest pain imaginable is that of a father allowing his son to suffer and die. Therefore God spoke his ultimate word, “God suffers pain,” by using the father-son relationship.’65