Abstract.Necessary and sufficient conditions are given for a composition operator C^f = f o to be compact on the Bloch space & and on the little Bloch space 38$ . Weakly compact composition operators on £ § § are shown to be compact. If 6 3 § § is a conformai mapping of the unit disk D into itself whose image <¡>(H) approaches the unit circle T only in a finite number of nontangential cusps, then C$ is compact on 3g § . On the other hand if there is a point of T n ) at which <£(D) does not have a cusp, then C¿ is not compact.

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Although Jesus' agony in the garden (Matt 26:36–46; Mark 14:32–42; Luke 22:40–46) may be powerful and even inexpressibly poignant to modern readers, it was a plague and embarrassment to patristic and medieval interpreters. Few narratives in the New Testament were so inimical to received christological assumptions. Ancient and medieval interpreters, at least those ultimately judged to be orthodox, ascribed to the Incarnate Word the qualities of divine consubstantiality, omnipotence, omniscience, obedience, and impassibility. The pericope, at least in its Markan and Matthean versions, however, presents a figure who appears in utterly human form—powerless, ignorant, recalcitrant, and passible.