The Pulpit Commentary — Luke — Volume 2 — Section 194

likrnlnrss, nnrl, e.s " reply, produred two Canon Westcott suggests that the succes- swords. ns if these two poor wenpons could sion of the mo.in events recorded by the four help them in the coming times of sore need. evangolists was as follows:- If they were to stnnd firm in the long tria.1- senson which lny before them, they must Arprox. time. surely pro-.,ide themselves with very differ- l e..m .........The ngony. ent weapons to these; their ·arms in the The betmyal. campaign of the future must 'he forged in The couvey[lnce to the high no earthly workshop. But our Lord sadly pr_ie~t•s house, pl'Ob~bly u.d- dc>clined then to enter into further explana- Jo1mug "the Booths of tion. His meaning would be all clear to Hanan ... them soon, so he closed the dialogue with 2 a..m .........The preliminary examination the words, "It is enough." Tbis -.,erse W[IS before Annas in the pre- curiously pen•erted in the famous Bull of sence of Ce.io.phe.s. Pope Boniface VIII.," Unam so.net.am," to About 3 a..m ...The examination before Caie.- prove hui possession of both secular and pha.e and the Sanhedrin o.t spiritual power: "Dicentibus apostolis, ecce an irregular meeting a.t gladii duo, in Ecclesia scilicet, quum npostoli " the Booths." loquerentur, non respondit Dominus nimis About 5 a..m ... The formal sentence of the esse, sed sat,'s. . .. Uterqne ergo in potestate Sanhedrin in their own est Ecclesiro, spiritualis scilicet gladius et proper pince of meeting- materialis." Ga.zith or Beth l\Udrash (eh. x~. 66; ~fatt. xxvii. Vers. 39-46.-The agony in tM garden. 1, ,rpo,,as i'EVO/J,EVT/S; r.omp. This eventful scene is recounted in detail ~e.~k xv. ~ ; , eh. xxil. 66, by all the three synoptists. St. Matthew's o,s e;,lveTo 'IIP.•pa ). 11ccollllt is the most complete. St. Mark The first examination before Pila.ta a.t tbe po.lace. adds one saying of the Lord's containing a. 5. 30 o..m .... The examination before Herod. deep theological truth, "Abbe., Father, a.ll The scourging and first mock- things a.re possible unto thee." These re- ery by the soldiers at the markable words, occurring as they do in the palnco. midst of the most solemn scene of prayer in 6.30 a..m. ...The sentence of Pilate (John xix. 14, C,p11, ~v ws e1<T11). the Redeemer's earth-life, tell of the vast 7 o..m.........The second mockery of the possibilities of prayer. What may not be condemned "King" by the o.ccomplished by ea.meet supplication to the soldiers. throne of grace? 9 o..m .........The Crucifixion, 1md rejection St. Luke's account is the shortest, but it of the stupefying draught contains the story of the angelic mission (Mark xv. 25, ;jv IJ,pnp£T11). 12 noon ...... The la.at charge. of help, and the additional detail of the 12-3 p.m ...The darkness (Mntt. xxvii. "bloody sweat." 45; Mark xv. 33; eh. xxiii. St. John alone of the fonr omits the scene; 44, ~v wuel IJ,p11, EICT'f/ ••• Et,}S but, as in other most important recite.ls &pas lvvd.T71s). where he refrains from repeating the story Sp.m ......... The end. of things thoroughly known in his Master's Ver. 39.-And he oa.me out, and went, llB he was wont, to the Mount of Olives. In Church at the period when he committed the other evangelists we find the place on his Gospel to writing, he takes ea.re, how- the Mount of Olives described as Geth- ever, often to record some hitherto unre- semane. The word Gethsemane signifies cor<led piece of the Lord's teaching, which "oil-pl'ess." It was a. garden; one of the is calculo.tcd to throw new light upon the many charming gardens which Josephus mnmentons twice and thrice told incident, tells us old Jerusalem 6bounded with. It perhaps belonged to a. friend of Christ, or tl,e story of which he does not deem it else was with others of these go.rdens, or 1trnessa.ry to repeat. So in eh. ii. he throws "paradises," thrown open at the great a flood of light upon Christian baptism. festival seasons to the faithful pilgrims who Ch. vi. is a. Divine commentary on the Holy on these occasions crowded the holy city Eucharist. While in eh. xii. 23-28 he and its suburbs. There is a.t the present day just beyond the brook Kedron, between the gives us, in his Mnster's words, a. new in- paths that go up to the summit of the sight into that awful sorrow which was the mount, about three quarters of o. mile from source of the agony in Gt.:thsemane, the Jeruso.lem wall, o.n oucloaeil gardeu 011. :um.1-71.J THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. LUKE.