This expression has Semitic overtones (4 Ezra 6:26), and means: taking on the bitterness of death in one’s body (1 Samuel 15:32). It is also found in the Gospels (Mark 9:1; John 8:52).1
This expression has Semitic overtones (4 Ezra 6:26), and means: taking on the bitterness of death in one’s body (1 Samuel 15:32). It is also found in the Gospels (Mark 9:1; John 8:52).1
9 But we see him who for a little while was made lower than the angels, namely Jesus, crowned with glory and honor because of the suffering of death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone.