Passing Across

Ascendit in naviculam, et transfretavit et venit in civitatem suam. Ascendit, inquit, in naviculam, et transfretavit. Et quid mirum, fratres? Christus venit suscipere infirmitates nostras, et suas nobis conferre virtutes; humana quaerere, praestare divina, accipere injurias, reddere dignitates; ferre taedia, referre santiates; quia medicus qui non fert infirmitates, infirmitaes curare nescit, et qui non fuerit cum infirmo infirmatus, infirmo non postest conferre santitatem. Christus ergo, si in suis mansisset virtutibus, commune cum homnibus nil haberert; et nisi implesset carnis ordinem, carnis in illo esset otiosa susceptio. Sustinuit ergo has necessitates, ut homo verus humanis necessitatibus probaretur.  Sanctus Maximus Taurinensis, Homilia CVIII, Super Illa Evangelii Matth, Cap VI: Ascendit Jesus in naviculam et transfretavit Source: Migne PL 57 503a-b

He went up into a boat and passed across to His city. 1 He went up into a boat, it says, and passed across. And why wonder, brothers? Christ came to take up our infirmities, and to confer His virtues, to seek the human, and to offer the Divine, to receive injuries and to return goods, to bear wretchedness and to offer healing; because a physician who does not bear infirmities, does not know how to cure infirmities, and he who has not been infirm with the infirm is not able to give health to the infirm. Christ, then, if He had remained in His powers, would have had nothing in common with men, and unless He had filled the order of the flesh, the taking on of the flesh would have been pointless. He thus bore these constraints that truly He be proved a man in human necessities. Saint Maximus of Turin, from Homily 108, On Matthew 'Jesus went up into a boat and passed across...' 1.Mt 9.1