Among all the works of God’s mercy, dearly beloved, which from the beginning have been devoted to the salvation of mortals, none is more wonderful, none more sublime, than that Christ was crucified for the world….
The whole lowliness is in his majesty, while the whole majesty in his lowliness….
In us, therefore, the Lord trembled with our terror, that he might clothe himself by the putting on of our weakness, and wrap our inconstancy in the firmness of his strength. He had come into this world as the rich and merciful ambassador from heaven. He had entered the economy of salvation in a wonderful interchange, receiving our state and giving us his own, giving honors for insults, health for pain, life for death. He, whom more than twelve thousand of his angelic legions (cf. Mt 26:53) could serve by annihilating his persecutors, preferred to accept our fear rather than to exercise his own power. By, Saint Leo the Great