God Is Impassible and Impassioned Quotes

“When Moses saw the glory of God on Mount Sinai so terrifying was the sight that he trembled in fear (Heb. 12:21). But that was God in covenant: God in grace. What Christ saw in Gethsemane was God with the sword raised (Zc. 13:7; Mt. 26:31). The sight was unbearable. In a few short hours, he, the Last Adam, would stand before that God answering for the sin of the world: indeed, identified with the sin of the world (2 Cor. 5:21).. . . Consequently, to quote Luther . . . “No one ever feared death so much as this man.”10”
― Rob Lister, God Is Impassible and Impassioned: Toward a Theology of Divine Emotion