humiliated

• ​Latin root of the verb infinitive to humiliate: humiliare, to make low or humble
• Latin root of the verb infinitive to humble: humiliare, to make low or humble

Conventional wisdom and the dictionary agree that “humiliate” and “humble” are different, but that is not so. I used to think that the Resurrection was the greatest event in history. Now I think the Incarnation was.

He who made me, joined me, and had all the emotions I have, not some, all. At the Crucifixion, out of the thousands of people who acclaimed Him, three people stood and watched Him die.

If you tell me that Christ did not feel humiliated and humbled, in short, inadequate, I’d say you were wrong.

His Incarnation humiliates and humbles me.
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Why any person is not overwhelmed by desire for the humiliated and humbled One, I cannot answer.

Aphrodite of Menophantos
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Venus pudica is the best-known copy type of the Venus of Cnidus and bears the signature of the sculptor Menophantos: “work by Menophantos, after the Aphrodite in the Troad”.

The marble sculpture is Greek art from the 1st century BC, found at a Catholic monastery and now at the National Roman Museum. Look at her, goddess of the humiliated and humbled.