“Lamb of God…ever patient” (LSB 434). Patience is suffering pain or temptation without complaining. The English word patient comes from the Greek pathos or the Latin passio, both words that mean “suffering.” The original sense of the word patient is “being acted upon by something by something else.” Patients of a surgeon are totally inactive, only passive; they are operated upon. Likewise the patient Lamb of God suffered for us as an example, as well as for the most important reason, for our salvation, as we learn in 1 Peter 2:21-24.