CHAPTER 22 VER.6. _And he sought opportunity to betray Him unto them._ Judas sold Jesus Christ on the fourth day of the week, the day of Mercury; on the following day, or the day of Jupiter, he delivered Him to them. Thence followed "the day of unleavened bread." See how sudden was the wickedness of... [ Continue Reading ]
_This cup is the new Testament in My blood._ That is, this cup is the authentic instrument, and, as it were, the chart and tabula testamentaria, in which My new covenant is written and signed for giving you My heavenly inheritance, written, I say, not with ink, but in My blood. 1 Corinthians 11:23,... [ Continue Reading ]
_And I appoint unto you a kingdom._ As My Father has decreed and prepared for Me, through humility and the cross: through so many labours and sufferings: a kingdom heavenly and eternal, so do I also appoint the same unto you: that is, I decree, prepare, and, going to death I now appoint, as by my wi... [ Continue Reading ]
_But now he that hath a purse, let him take it, and likewise his scrip._ A purse filled with money, a scrip with food, that they might have support in the impending persecution; for they will never find either, "because men will fly from Me, who am bound and accused, and consequently from My discipl... [ Continue Reading ]
_And they said, Lord, behold, here are two swords._ They did not understand the mind and words of Christ clearly. He did not mean that they should buy swords, but He wished to show them the impending danger. Christ did not explain His meaning to the Apostles, but concealed it, saying, "It is enough,... [ Continue Reading ]
_And there appeared an angel unto Him from heaven._ The angel appeared in a body assumed visibly that he might comfort the eyes and ears of Christ by his appearance and voice. Jansenius thinks that the angel appeared at each of Christ's three prayers, and therefore comforted Him three times, to teac... [ Continue Reading ]
_And being in an agony, He prayed more earnestly._ The "et" here in the Hebrew is causal, and means quia, because. That is, the angel comforted Him; because being in an agony and praying more earnestly, He sweated blood, and then appeared to need comfort, and to merit it. The following, was the orde... [ Continue Reading ]
_And when He rose up from prayer._ For sorrow contracts the heart, and hinders the vital and subtle spirits from being sent to the head; wherefore the black and crass vapours which are the cause of sleep, invade the brain. But there is a hysteron proteron here. For these things happened before the b... [ Continue Reading ]
_And said unto them, Why sleep ye?_ See what has been said on Matthew xxvi. xxvii.... [ Continue Reading ]