Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints:
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Both the sufferings of the Head and of the members are called the sufferings of Christ, and make up, as it were, one body of sufferings. But He suffered for the redemption of the church; we suffer on other accounts; for we do but slightly taste that cup of afflictions of which Christ first drank deeply.
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This thought runs through Colossians 1:23-27.