Hilary of Poitiers

Catena Aurea · Matthäusevangelium 27

And after that they had mocked him, they took the robe off from him, and put his own raiment on him, and led him away to crucify him. And as they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name: him they compelled to bear his cross. And when they were come unto a place called Golgotha, that is to say, a place of a skull, They gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall: and when he had tasted thereof, he would not drink. That He tasted but would not drink of it, signifies that He tasted the bitterness of death for us, but rose again the third day.