Matthew 26:37

τὸν Πέτρον κ.τ.λ. See ch. Matthew 17:1 and Mark 5:37. The Evangelist, St John, was thus a witness of this scene; hence, as we should expect, his narrative of the arrest of Jesus is very full of particulars.

ἀδημονεῖν. This word is found in the parallel passage, Mark 14:33 and in Philippians 2:26, not elsewhere in N.T. Buttmann, Lex. p. 29 foll. connects it with ἄδημος, as if the train of thought were,—absence from home—perplexity—distress. It is better however to recur to the older derivation connecting it with ἄδην, ἀδῆσαι (see Bp. Lightfoot, on Philippians 2:26), where the idea of the word would be either (1) ‘satiety,’ so painful weariness of life and life’s work; cp. the use of the rare word ἄδος of the weary woodcutter: ἐπεί τʼ ἐκορέσσατο χεῖρας | τάμνων δένδρεα μακρὰ ἄδος τέ μιν ἵκετο θυμόν (Il. XI. 88), loathing of his work, dislike to go on with it. Or (2) from the sense of physical derangement transferred to mental pain, ‘distress,’ ‘agony of mind,’ which agrees very well with the instance quoted by Buttmann of a woman threatened with violence: ἀδημονούσης τῆς�, Dem. de F. L. p. 402. The old lexicons give as synonyms, ἀγωνιᾶν, ἀλύειν, ἀπορεῖν, ἀμηχανεῖν.