Passion (2)
Passion is a term ecclesiastically applied to our Lord's crucifixion (as in Ac 1:3, παθεῖν, suffering, as elsewhere rendered). For the detailed circumstances connected with this event, SEE AGONY; SEE CRUCIFIXION; SEE FLAGELLATION, etc. Monographs on the various points may be seen cited in Volbeding, Index Programmatum, p. 50, 52, 60, 62; Hase, Leben Jesu, p. 158, 174. See also Blunt, Hist. Dict. s.v.; Lond. Qu. Rev. January, 1875, p. 106 sq.; Liddon, Div. of Christ; Bunsen, Die heilige Leidensgeschichte (Leips. 1861); Farrar, Life of Christ. For the history, SEE JESUS CHRIST.
