“Even More Than Man Can Suffer”
Christ’s agony in the garden is unfathomable by the finite mind, wrote Elder James E. Talmage, “both as to intensity and cause.... He struggled and groaned under a burden such as no other being who has lived on earth might even conceive as possible. It was not physical pain, nor mental anguish alone, that caused him to suffer such torture as to produce an extrusion of blood from every pore; but a spiritual agony of soul such as only God was capable of experiencing. No other man, however great his powers of physical or mental endurance, could have suffered so; for his human organism would have succumbed, and syncope would have produced unconsciousness and welcome oblivion.” (Jesus the Christ, p. 613.)
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