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By “cup” in these things he calls the stupefaction through death and the drunkenness that as it were puts one to sleep toward sleep.Declining to drink it — that is, not making suffering very much according to pleasure — accuses the impiety of those who crucified him.For they may not surely say, “Since he chose to suffer, we are rather helpers of the will” (Matthew 26:39); for the declining will convict them of choosing to speak falsely.