The human (Adam) knows himself to be the cause of Christ's suffering:. ‘Ah Child of mine, what could it be that Thou hast done, O Sweetest One, / To meet this sort of verdict - agh! - this punishment unbearable? / What thing, O All-Beloved Man, couldst Thou have done so as to bear / These sufferings so terrible? What act could be Thy breach of law? / And what could be the deed of Thine that rendereth Thee liable? / What proper cause is there for death? How also can Thy judgement be / Maintained to have been warranted? / Myself alone, yes I alone, have fully been Thy cause of pain, / And for the slaughter of Thy death the reason and the guilty one / Is I, and I alone. / The accusation for the vengeance on Thine every side is I, / And I the pain of all the stripes of Thy distress's sufferings. / Ah what a fearful Mystery! / Ah what an overflowing crime, both strange and paradoxical! / Ah great divine arrangement which is wholly uninterprable! / The violator sinned, and yet the Just One taketh chastening. / The stumbling one hath trespassed, and yet stricken is the Innocent. / The outlaw doth infringe and on the Righteous hath the judgement come. / This worthless one had debts, and yet the Goodly One uplifteth them. / This slave committed evil, and the Lord Himself doth compensate. / This man withal doth have the blame, yet God doth undergo these things. / Extreme indeed, O Son of God, extreme is Thy humility, / Arriving all because of me to condescension's summitpoint; / Withal supremely warming is the love that Thou dost have toward me; / Thy mercy indescribable doth overflow exceedingly; / And unto me Thy goodness doth surpassingly abound as well; / And Thine affection is brought out unto the same extent, O Lord, / As Thy compassion goeth forth. / Though I myself did wrong, yet Thou hast undergone my sentences. / Though I have wrought the evil, yet now Thou art being judged for it. / Through I have erred, yet Thou Thyself art whipped as one in slavery. / Though I the clay lashed out, yet now hast Thou been holden in contempt. / Though I refused to hear, yet Thou submittest now instead of me. / Though I displayed my impotence in gluttony, O Potent One, / Yet Thou wast hungry in my stead. / The tree unlawful once enticed me to consumption long ago; / And to ascend the cross's tree Thine ardent love escorted Thee. / I have partaken of the fruit that was to me prohibited, / And yet the scaffold of the violation Thou didst undertake. / I revel now in pleasure and upon the cross Thou sufferest. / In luxury have I been wasteful, and by nails hast Thou been pierced. / As through the sweetness of the apple I had been beguiled of old, / Because of me hast Thou Thyself now tasted of the sponge with gall. / So Eve doth co-rejoice with me and she co-danceth at my side, / And Mary is lamenting and co-hurting with Thee bitterly.’
St. Nectarios the Wonderworker (+1920), The Kekregarion of the Divine and Sacred Augustine Bishop of Hippo, Being Four Books, Put into Meter according to the Tonic Base from the Translation of Eugene Voulgaris, by the Metropolitan of Pentapolis Nectarios (amateur translation)
Twentieth Century