as an incentive to watchfulness. — aadevqs, weaK) for the right performance of the matter in hand.
42. 'Eav py, x.r.X., except, etc.) Whilst Jesus drank the cup it passed away. — T/W, / drink) And now by this very utterance of that word He brings Himself nearer to the act of drinking. — ytvrfifiru, be done) The prayer of Jesus approached now nearer to suffering ; cf. ver. 39. Behold His obedience.
1 Where Peter's flesh is represented as not willing (OKOV ov ^Xe/f) that which his spirit would be willing to bear. The not-willingness is not absolute without reference to God's will and glory. His flesh would wish to escape, only if so were God's will. — ED.
2 E. V. What f could ye not ?— (I. B.)
8 irpoSvftov — xoS-'jii;, willing — weak. See ver. 33, 35, and cf. ver. 40. — B. G. V.
43. r&p, x.r.X., for, etc.) The cause of their sleeping a second time [' Aetiologia ;' see Appendix]. — fajSaprt/Mi/oi, weighed doivn. Such slothfulness frequently overpowers the godly when it is least becoming.
44. 'EX rpirou, the third time) The third and last time. — TOV avrriv, the same) as suitable to sorrow. The repetition of the same words is frequently congenial to the soul.
45. Kadsvdsrs TO Xombv, sleep on now) An imperative, leaving the disciples, as it were to themselves, wholly given up as they were to sleep, and thus exciting them so much the more urgently by tenderness joined with severity. It is not an in stance of irony, but metonymy, q.d. " You do not listen to Me when attempting to rouse you, others soon will come and rouse you. In the meanwhile sleep, if you have leisure for so doing." In St Luke (xxii. 46) we find T'I xafaudere " why sleep yeV with an interrogation, which some have introduced into St Matthew and St Mark. — avafavetfti, take your rest), as Sleep is opposed to Watching, so Rest to the labour of prayer. — $ upa, the hour) often foretold. In ver. 18 He had said less definitely " My time"
46. 'O vapadiSov; Ms, he that betray eth Me) Of whom I have already spoken : " that betrayeth Me" He says, not " you"
47. SvXuv, staves) as in a sudden tumult ; see ver. 55.
[48. KpartjGars Aurbv, seize hold of Him) Judas feared lest Jesus should escape on the present, as He had done on a former occasion. — -/.at ixpdr^tfav Aurbv, and they seized hold of Him) First the multitude seized upon Jesus ; in the meantime occurred the blow and the miracle on Malchus, whose ear the Saviour touched and healed ;* then they surrounded and appre hended Him as an actual prisoner. The former is expressed in Matthew and Mark by the verb xpart/v, to seize hold of, the latter in Luke [xxii. 54] and John [xviii. 12], by ffuXXa/i/Sa^/c, to apprehend. Then they moreover bound Him. — B. H. E., p. 530.]
49. Ka,Ts(piXr,g£, kissed Him repeatedly, Lat. deosculatus est) He kissed Him more than once in opposition to what He had said
1 In the German this is beautifully expressed by the words, " dessen Ohr der HEYLAND atigcrilhret nnd GEHEILET." — (1. B.)