Ultima, = the last things in reference to the first and middle things

But here is yet a third effusion of blood, and that (as Bernard tells us) was in vellicatione genarum in the nippings and tearings of his sacred cheeks, ¹to this bears the Prophet witness, Isaiah 50.6.² I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to the nippers; or as our later Translation, I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: whether his cheeks were torn, or his beard plucked off, some vary in opinion: Bernard thinks both might be true;³ or howsoever we believe, most probable it is, that neither of them could be effected without effusion of hloud. And now me thinks I see that face fairer then the sons of men spit on by the Jews; nor is their scorn without some cruelty; for in the next Scene they exercise their fists, which that they may do with more sport to them, and spite to him,⁴ they first blindfold him, and then smiting him on the face, they bid him read who it is that strikes him; and yet (as if whiteness of their spittle, and blueness of their strokes, had not caused enough colours) they once more die his rosy countenance in a bloody red; to this end do they nip his cheeks with their nails, and (as others) pluck off his hair with their fingers, whereby streams and strokes of blood run down his cheeks, and drop down at his chin to his lower garments: O sweet face of our Saviour, what mean these sufferings, but to tell us, if ever confusion cover our face for him, that we consider then how blood and sweat thus covered his face for us.

But here is yet a third effusion of bloud, and that (as Bernard tels us) was in vellicatione genarum in the nippings and tearings of his sacred cheeks, ¹to this bears the Prophet witness, Esay 50.6.² I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to the nippers; or as our later Translation, I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: whether his cheeks were torn, or his beard plucked off, some vary in opinion: Bernard thinks both might be true;