The thieves also, who were crucified with him, reviled him the same way.
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Rabanus Maurus
AD 856
Had He then been prevailed on by their taunts to leave the cross, He would not have proved to us the power of endurance; but He waited enduring their mockery; and He who would not come down from the cross, rose again from the tomb.