are gathered up in the title ‘the Son of God,’ ‘the Christ’” (Westcott).
27. My soul. See reff. on ver. 25. The sowl, ~ruyn, is the seat of the hwman affections; the spurit (rvedua) of the relig- tous affections.
Is troubled (rerdpaxra). The perfect tense; has been dis- turbed and remains troubled. The same verb as in xi. 33. No- tice that there it is said He groaned wn the spirit (to mvevparc). His inward agitation did not arise from personal sorrow or sympathy, but from some shock to His moral and spiritual sense.
What shall | say? A natural expression out of the depths of our Lord’s humanity: How shall I express my emotion ? Some commentators connect this with the following clause, shall I say, Father, save me, etc. But this does not agree with the context, and represents a hesitation in the mind of Jesus which found no place there.*
Save me. The shrinking from suffering belongs to the human personality of our Lord (compare Matt. xxvi. 39); but the prayer, save me from this hour, is not for deliverance from suffering, but for victory in the approaching trial. See Heb. v. 7. The expression is very vivid. “Save me out of this hour.”
For this cause. Explained by glorify thy name. For this cause, namely, that the Father’s name might be glorified.
28. Glorify (60facov). (Wyc., clarify, as the Vulgate clari- Sica.)
Name. See on Matt. xxviii. 19.
30. For my sake. Emphatic in the Greek order. It is not for my sake that this voice hath come.
* Meyer acutely remarks that this rendering ‘‘ vields the result of an actual prayer interwoven into a reflective monologue, and is therefore less suitable to a frame of mind so deeply moved.”