called a blackberry, of the buds of which we are accustomed to eat when we find it in the countryside. Thus the fruits of the blackberry alone are sweet.38 9What does this mean then, that the first is for the altar, the other is accursed, and the one which is accursed is crowned? Listen. Because then they shall see him, on that day, wearing the scarlet robe around his flesh, and they shall say: “Is this not he whom once we crucified, rejecting him, piercing him and spitting upon him? Truly it was
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