ACC ~ Mark 3 v5b

THE DIVERSITY OF HIS FEELINGS

AUGUSTINE: Feelings cannot exist in anything but a living soul. These events show that just as Jesus had a human body he had a human soul. We read about the diversity of his feelings in the reports of the same Evangelists [who attested his divinity]: Jesus was astonished, [1] was angered, [2] was grieved, [3] was elated, [4] and similar emotive responses without number. Likewise it is clear that he experienced the ordinary fully human experience of interconnectedness between his body and his soul. He was hungry; [5] he slept; [6] he was tired from his journey. [7] AGAINST THE APOLLINARIANS 80. [8]

[1] Mt 8:10.

[2] Mk 3:5.

[3] Cf. Jn 11:33-35.

[4] Cf. Heb 12:2.

[5] Mt 4:2; Lk 4:2.

[6] Mt. 8:24; Mk 4:38; Lk 8:23.

[7] Jn 4:6.

[8] Cetedoc 0289, 80.84; FC 70:210-11**.