“He had refused the gold crown that man had offered him once that he might have this crown. In the wilderness he had refused the scepter of power and now they gave him a broken reed to hold, a symbol of helplessness. Yet it was a real royal cloak that he wore: the royal robe of suffering.”
Elizabeth Goudge, God…
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