Here they gave Him a mixture of wine and gall to drink, but having tasted it He refused to drink it.
One of them ran forthwith, and filling a sponge with sour wine put it on the end of a cane and offered it Him to drink;
Here they offered Him wine mixed with myrrh; but He refused it.
For it is impossible, in the case of those who have once for all been enlightened, and have tasted the sweetness of the heavenly gift, and have been made partakers of the Holy Spirit,