The Cowardice of Sin

- Elder isn't cowardice a sin?
- Yes, my child.
- Didn't the Lord cower at Gethsemane? Then, how is He 
  sinless?
- What would the Lord face at Golgotha?
- Death.
- And what is death, according to the Holy Scripture?
- The wages of sin.
- Well, what relation did the God-man have with sin and its 
  wages, death?
- None, whatsoever!
- The agony, consequently, of the Lord at Gethsemane was not 
  cowardice as a sin, but disgust and aversion, which He felt as 
  God toward sin and its fruit.

Archimandrite Epiphanios Theodoropoulos, Counsels for Life