Luke 22:45 (WEB)
When he rose up from his prayer, he came to the disciples and found them sleeping because of grief,
Fathers and councils · 17
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.
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John Chrysostom
“Men who were weighed down to sleep, (as another Evangelist saith,— Luke xxii. 45 ,) who were possessed by despondency, as Christ saith Himself, “Because I have said these things unto you, sorrow hath filled your hearts” ( c. xvi. 6 ), how could they retain all these things exactly?” — the author cites it
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Hilary of Poitiers
“Watch and pray that ye enter not into temptation: for the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.” — editor's note: St. Matt. xxvi. 40, 41; St. Mark xiv. 37, 38; cf. St. Luke xxii. 45, 46.
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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 · 1
Cited together in Theophylact of Ohrid on Luke 22:43–46 (Catena Aurea).