Luke 22:43 (WEB)
An angel from heaven appeared to him, strengthening him.
Catechism · 2
In the Fullness of Time
“Jesus prays before the decisive moments of his mission: before his Father's witness to him during his baptism and Transfiguration, and before his own fulfillment of the Father's plan of love by his Passion.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Lk 3:21; 9:28; 22:41-44.
Heaven and Earth
“They protect Jesus in his infancy, serve him in the desert, strengthen him in his agony in the garden, when he could have been saved by them from the hands of his enemies as Israel had been.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Mt 1:20; 2:13,19; 4:11; 26:53; Mk 1:13; Lk 22:43; Macc 10:29-30; 11:8.
Fathers and councils · 20
Jerome
“Luke xxii. 43.” — the author cites it
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Ambrose of Milan
“For with them there was One in the form of an angel, comforting them, to the end that in the number of the Trinity one Supreme Power might be praised.” — editor's note: S. Luke xxii. 43.
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Augustine of Hippo
“And when He was at the place, He said unto them, Pray that ye enter not into temptation.”” — editor's note: Luke xxii. 39–46.
Read the whole comment“Nevertheless even the cross itself, if thou considerest it well, was a judgment-seat; for the Judge being set up in the middle, one thief who believed was delivered, the other who reviled was condemned.” — editor's note: Luke xxii. 43.
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Hilary of Poitiers
“…an angel stood by Him comforting Him, and as the angel stood by Him, He prayed the more earnestly, so that the sweat poured from His body in drops of blood.” — editor's note: St. Luke xxii. 43, 44. The Greek is ὥσει, ‘as it were drops of blood.’
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Ephrem the Syrian
“As also in the night, while He was praying, it is written;—There appeared to Him an angel strengthening Him.” — editor's note: Luke xxii. 43.
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Catena Aurea on Luke
- Theophylact of OhridCatena Aurea on Luke
To make known unto us the power of prayer that we may exercise it in adversity, our Lord when praying is comforted by an Angel. (Matt. 4:11.)
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In another place we read that Angels came and ministered unto Him. In testimony then of each nature, Angels are said both to have ministered to Him and comforted Him. For the Creator needed not the protection of His…
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But some say that the Angel appeared, glorifying Him, saying, O Lord, Thine is the power, for Thou art able to vanquish death, and to deliver weak mankind.
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And because not in appearance but in reality He took upon Himself our flesh, in order to confirm the truth of the dispensation He submits to bear human suffering; for it follows, And being in an agony he prayed more…
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Many are shocked at this place who turn the sorrows of the Saviour to an argument of inherent weakness from the beginning, rather than taken upon Him for the time. But I am so far from considering it a thing to be…
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He has expressed also the conflict of our mind in itself, as death approaches, for we suffer a certain thrill of terror and dread, when by the dissolution of the flesh we draw near to the eternal judgment; and with…
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Now that the preceding prayer was of His human nature, not His divine, as the Arians say, is argued from what is said of His sweat, which follows, And his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the…
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Let no one ascribe this sweat to natural weakness, nay, it is contrary to nature to sweat blood, but rather let him derive therefrom a declaration to us, that He was now obtaining the accomplishment of His prayer,…
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Our Lord praying with a bloody sweat represented the martyrdoms which should flow from His whole body, which is the Church.
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Or this is proverbially said of one who has sweated intensely, that He sweated blood; the Evangelist then wishing to shew that He was moistened with large drops of sweat, takes drops of blood for an example. But…
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For it was midnight, and the disciples’ eyes were heavy from grief, and their sleep was not that of drowsiness but sorrow.
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Now Luke has not stated after which prayer He came to His disciples, still in nothing does he disagree with Matthew and Mark.
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Our Lord proves by what comes after, that He prayed for His disciples whom He exhorts by watching and prayer to be partakers of His prayer; for it follows, And he saith unto them, Why sleep ye? Rise and pray, lest ye…
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That is, that they should not be overcome by temptation, for not to be led into temptation is not to be overwhelmed by it. Or He simply bids us pray that our life may be quiet, and we be not cast into trouble of any…
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Cross-references · 17
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith I.5.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith I.5.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith I.5.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith I.5.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith I.5.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith I.5.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith I.5.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith I.5.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith I.5.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith I.5.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith I.5.
Cited together in Catechism §2600.
Cited together in Catechism §2600.
Cited together in Catechism §2600.
Cited together in Catechism §2600.
Cited together in Catechism §2600.
Cited together in Catechism §2600.