Christ our shadow: Lam 4:20; body from Spirit

And elsewhere Jeremiah says: ‘The Spirit of our face, Christ the Lord, how then was he taken in their snares — he of whom we said: We shall live under his shadow among the nations?’ (Lam 4:20)

That the Christ, though Spirit of God, was to be a man of sorrows, Scripture indicates, and is as it were seized with astonishment and wonder at his passion — so many torments was he to undergo, he under whose shadow we said we would live. By shadow one must understand his body. For as the shadow comes from the body, the body of Christ came from his Spirit. (Isa 53:3; Heb 10:5)

Shadow, among the prophets, can also signify humiliation and the capacity to suffer. For as with bodies that stand upright the shadow lies on the ground and is trampled underfoot, so the body of Christ, fallen to the ground in his passion, was as it were trampled underfoot. (Isa 53:7)

And when he calls ‘shadow’ the healing that went out from him, he shows that his presence among human beings was the shadow under which those who believed lived and were freed from every kind of disease; and those on whom his shadow fell were healed. (Mk 6:56; Acts 5:15)