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JESUS IN GETHSEMANE.
LESSON VIII, SECOND QUARTER, IN¬
TERNATIONAL SERIES, MAY 20.
( Text of the Lesson, Matt, xxvi, 36-46.
Golden Text, Heb. v, 8—Memorise
Verses 36-39—Comments by Itev. H. S.
Hofi'maii.
[Condensed from Lesson Helper Quarterly, by
permission of H. S. Hoffman, Philadelphia, pub¬
^ lisher.]
Notes.—V. 36. Then cometh, that is, after
the institution of the supper. Gethsemane,
which signifies “olive press," a place across
£he brook Kedron, on the lower slope of the
Mount of Olives. V. 37. Very heavy means
pressed down with great anguish, produced
by foresight of his great sufferings. V. 38.
Even unto death, the sense of death was felt;
our sins upon him was the cause of all his
agony. V. 39. Fell on his face, the usual
posture in times of great earnestness. Num¬
bers xvi, 22; II Chron. xx, 18; Neh. viii, 0.
If possible, if the world can otherwise be re¬
deemed. Cup often denotes suffering.
Matt, xx, 22. V. 45. Bleep on now.
Most interpreters think this should be
translated as a question, rather a com¬
mand: “Do you sleep now and take your
rest?” Is this a time, amid so much
danger and so many enemies, to sleep? This
construction is favored by Luke xxii, 46,
where the expression, “Why sleep ye?” refers
to the same point of time—the hour is at
hand—the time of betrayal and death is near.
Sinners, Judas, Roman soldiers and Jews.
46. Let us be going, wheresoever my cap
tore shall lead mo. There was no time now
for escape; none for repose.
In the last lesson we saw the signs of
coming sorrow for our Lord; in this lesson
we behold him in agony the most intense.
The clouds that had long been gathering now
burst in fury upon him. He knew from the
first what he would have to meet. He did
not bow to the inev i v He was no Pro
metbeus fettered by necessity. His human
nature may have made him shrink back for
a time from, his passion, but the higher mo¬
tive of God’s glory and man’s salvation made
him welcome the agony of Gethsemane.
V. 36. After the institution of the Lord’s
Supper, perhaps near midnight, our Lord,
with bis disciples, left Jerusalem, and on
their way to Gethsemane crossed the per
turbed waters of the Black brook, tinged anu
darkened by the blood of the temple sacri
tides, fit symbol of how his own sacrificial
blhod should soou flow, making forever after
needless the offering of bloody sacrifices for
The name Geth_, meumn, olive
press, seems to be significant as emblematic
of his own agony and distress. “There,”
says Matthew Henry, “our Lord Jesus trod
the wine press of the Father’s wrath.”
“In this oil press, like the olives were crushed
and bruised, Christ was bruised for our sins,
that oil might flow from his wounds to heal
©ur souls.”—Dr. Wordsworth.
V. 37. Peter, James and John seemed to
a holy triumvirate. On other
these three disciples had been
favored by our Lord to see his power and
^glory as was not accorded the others. They
alone beheld the brightness of his glory on
the Mount, and now the depth of his agony
in Gethsemane. They alone were permitted
to see the first manifestations of his resurrec¬
tion power. And yet, of these three favor
Ites, to John our Saviour was most attached.
Jesus has sanctioned and sanctified by his
iudividual friendships as not con¬
flicting with the exercises of a universal love.
We also learn that they who live nearest to
him and imbibe most of his spirit are re¬
warded by views of his power and glory such
as other men never receive.
V. 38. He acquaints the disciples with his
condition. It gives some comfort to un
bosom one’s heart’s sorrow to a friend. The
seat of his sorrow was the soul, showing us
that Christ possessed a true human soul. His
sufferings were not predominately corporeal,
but mental
^ V. 39. The of heaven’s glory and the
center
object of the angels’ worship is now pros¬
trated upon the earth in earnest prayer.
Thick as the cloud was, he could still see
God as his father. In deep sorrow we should
each claim God as “my father.” Whither
•hall the child go, but unto the father?
£| He begs of the father that if man can be
redeemed and God glorified, if the divine
plans can be carried out, that be be spared
tlio further drinking of the cup of suffering.
His aversion to pain shows that he was truly
man. But though this human nature mado
him shrink back au instant from the anguish,
yet beneath there lay, millions of fathoms
deep, unmoved and immovable, the intense
desire that his Father’s wish and will should
be done.
This prayer of Christ sanctions our going
to God when in great affliction and asking
deliverance, but conditioned upon his will.
The third petition in the Lord’s Prayer, and
our Lord's words here, teach the same, sub¬
mission to the will of God. “Two wills in
the universe break up its harmony; there
can be in a harmonic universe but one will
and that is God.”—Parker. The cup thffp
God puts into our hands, be it ever so bitter*
though nature struggle, grace makes uff
submit.
V. 40. As if a deadly vapor from the hot*
tomless pit had steeped their spirits, both
groups of disciples were stupefied with sleep.
And yet it was not a want of interest in the
Saviour’s passion that made them sleep.
Luke, as a physician, tells us that from sor¬
row they slept.
Our Lord singled out Peter because he had
been foremost in promising and boasting how
faithful he would be.
V. 41. Jay says, “Prayer without watch¬
ing is hypocrisy, and watching without
prayer is presumption.” Some watch with¬
out prayer and pray without watching. The
two must go hand in hand.
V. 42. His prayer is not now that the cup
may pass from him, but that ho might bo
enabled to fulfill the divine will in sacrificing
himself. The continuance of the trial he re¬
gards as God’s answer to his first prayer.
When God does not deliver us from our
sufferings he will certainly give us greater
strength to bear them.
V. 43. The craving for human sympathy
caused him again to go to his disciples. Im¬
potent as all human means are, we still in the
hour of deep sorrow wish the sympathetic
touch and word of those^iear us. How dis
appointing to our Lord in this respect were
the disciples. Though they continued dull
and sleepy, he did hot further rebuke them
for it. It seems by the expression, “their
eyes were heavy* 4 * that they mUde some at¬
tempt to drive away the dull sloth, and hence
Jesus looked upon them with some compas¬
sion. Carnal security when it once gets hold
is not V. easily He expelled. the third time. Tho
44. prayed threefold
threefold prayer remind, us of the
The timefor sympathy andvi K -
fiance is past. In the distance issuing from
the grove were to be seen tho lanterns of the
Roman soldiers, led by Judas, coining to
arrest Jesus. The hour of his enemies and
the hour of darkness had now come, further
traitor “'“ and his band. '^but VVhut sublime heroism I
How victory rings in his voieel Man was
defeated in a garden, and the man triumphed
in a garden!
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