Sorry to be going off topic, but this has been bothering me and my family since we saw that movie. In the Passion, what is the symbolic representation for the baby which Satan is holding?

I believe that it is Satan trying to tempt Christ to the very end. Satan is trying to say to the son of God, "Look, if you die then there will be nothing to stop me unleashing this child (who is the anti-christ) onto the world". For me the child represented the birth of suffering and death which the devil was telling christ he could unleash on the Messiah's death. That is why the baby is withered and old, it is already the object of pain and suffering that Satan is preparing to et loose on the world of men.

Thanks Si-amun. Very interesting. After I get done with this site I'm gonna watch that movie again. My mom bought it on DVD and i've been waiting for a day where nobody is home so I don't have to listen to anyone cry. When I saw it in the theater, a girl, maybe about 18 or so, bawled. I wanted to get out. When I looked over to my family to say I want to go, my mom, aunt and grandma were all crying. The movie didn't make me cry, it just made me much more interested in the topic than I ever was.

Perhaps us in England are all cold hearted but no one here cried. In fact their was a general chatter in places over disbeleif that he could go through all that and still survive. I didn't see a single person shed a single tear, and I saw it twice at the cinema! Oh well, us Brits are a cold bunch deep down! lol