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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
"Arise, let us go hence." "But why, tell me? Did he not know the hour at which Judas would come upon Him? Or perhaps He feared lest he should come and seize them, and lest the plotters should be upon him before he had furnished his most excellent teaching." Away with the thought! these things are far from His dignity. "If then He did not fear, why did He remove them, and then after finishing His discourse lead them into a garden known to Judas? …
Cyril of Alexandria
The common and usual acceptation of the words before us suggests the thought, that as the period of the madness of the Jews had come, and the priceless Cross of our Saviour was well-nigh set up, He was hastening to depart with His holy disciples, to that place in which the band of men and officers found and took Him. And the thought is a plausible one. But probably there was another meaning hinted at; I mean a spiritual and hidden meaning. …
Theophylact of Ohrid
He frequently mentions death, adding words of consolation as well, so as to make it more acceptable to them. For, hearing that He will die, they also learn that He voluntarily disregards the devil and dies out of love for the Father. Therefore, if the sufferings were destructive and not salvific, the loving Father would not have consented to this, nor would the beloved Son have taken them upon Himself. How then are we to understand that He dies out of love for the Father? …
Western Saints
Augustine of Hippo
And, as if it were said to Him, Why, then, dost Thou die, if Thou hast no sin to merit the punishment of death? He immediately added, "But that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do: arise, let us go hence." For He was sitting at table with those who were similarly occupied. But "let us go," He said, and whither, but to the place where He, who had nothing in Him deserving of death, was to be delivered up to death? …
Thomas Aquinas
Then he mentions the true reason for his death, which is that good which is virtue. He says, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Augustine relates this sentence to what follows, Rise, let us go hence. Two things led Christ to undergo death: love for God and love for neighbor; "Walk in love" (Eph 5:2). He shows this love by the sign that he accomplishes what God commands: "If you love me keep my commandments" (14:15). …
Bonaventure
But that the world may know that I love the Father, therefore I die at his command; hence: As the Father has given me commandment, so I do. Concerning this commandment, above, chapter ten: "This commandment I have received from my Father." God the Father gave him this commandment, not because he himself had merited it, but for our salvation; hence Second Corinthians five: "Him who knew no sin," God the Father "made sin for us, that we might be made the justice of God in him." Moreover, he did this out of love for us: above, chapter …
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