They gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall: and when he had tasted thereof, he would not drink.
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Hilary of Poitiers
AD 368
For a Jew was not worthy to bear Christ’s cross, but it was reserved for the faith of the Gentiles both to take the cross, and to suffer with Him.
Such is the place of the cross, set up in the centre of the earth, that it might be equally free to all nations to attain the knowledge of God.
Or, He therefore refused the “wine mingled with gall, because the bitterness of sin is not mingled with the in corruption of eternal glory.
