How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #10
To what extent he would be able to endure the torture he could not tell. Yet somehow it no longer held for his exhausted body the terror is had. (8.9)
Now that Rodrigues has been beaten down, he has nothing left to fear. In a way, this is a moment of peace—a moment when he feels at one with Jesus's struggles. He finally realizes that true bravery isn't the absence of fear, but the ability to reckon with it. And reckon with it he does.