So to be sick unto death is, not to be able to dieyet not as though there were hope of life no, the hopelessness in this case is that even the last hope, death, is not available. When death is the greatest danger, one hopes for life but when one becomes acquainted with an even more dreadful danger, one hopes for death. So when the danger is so great that death has become one's hope, despair is the disconsolateness of not being able to die.
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To live thus to cram today with eternity and not wait the next day the Christian has learnt and continues to learn (for the Christian is always learning) from the Pattern. How did He manage to live without anxiety for the next day He who from the first instant of His public life, when He stepped forward as a teacher, knew how His life would end, that the next day was His crucifixion knew this while the people exultantly hailed Him as King (ah, bitter knowledge to have at precisely that moment) knew, when they were crying, Hosanna, at His entry into Jerusalem, that they would cry, 'Crucify Him', and that it was to this end that He made His entry. He who bore every day the prodigious weight of this superhuman knowledge how did He manage to live without anxiety for the next day.
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