"As the multitudes went with Jesus to the place of punishment, a certain Simon of Cyrene was found on whom to lay the wood of the cross instead of the Lord ( Mt 27:32); that this act might foreshadow the Gentiles' faith, to whom the cross of Christ was to be not shame but glory. It was not accidental, therefore, that while the Jews were raging against Christ, a foreigner was found to share His sufferings, as the Apostle says, 'if we endure with Him, we shall also reign with Him' ( 2Ti 2:12); No Hebrew, but a stranger, was substituted for the Savior in His most holy degradation. For by this transference the propitiation of the spotless Lamb and the fulfillment of all mysteries passed from the circumcision to the uncircumcision, from the sons according to the flesh to the sons according to the spirit: since the Apostle says, 'For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed' ( 1Co 5:7). He offered Himself to the Father as a new and true sacrifice of reconciliation, was crucified not in the temple, whose worship was now at an end, and not within the confines of the city which for its sin was doomed to be destroyed, but outside, 'outside the camp' ( Heb 13:11-13), that, at the end of the old symbolic victims, a new Victim might be placed on a new altar, and the cross of Christ might be the altar not of the temple, but of the world."