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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
An awful thing is death, and very full of terror, but not to those who have learnt the true wisdom which is above. For he that knows nothing certain concerning things to come, but deems it to be a certain dissolution and end of life, with reason shudders and is afraid, as though he were passing into non-existence. …
Cyril of Alexandria
But, as the time had now come, Christ left the house where He had instructed His disciples in the mystery, and came to the place whither He Himself, the Saviour of all mankind, was wont often to resort, together with His holy disciples. He did this, too, from a wish to make it easy for the traitor to find Him. The place was a garden, typifying the Paradise of old. For in it, as it were, all places were summed up; and in it was consummated our return to man's ancient condition. …
Theophylact of Ohrid
The evangelist did not say "Jesus, having prayed in this manner," but "having said these things." For the preceding discourse was not a prayer, but a conversation, and was for the consolation of the disciples. Jesus goes in the middle of the night, crosses the river, and hastens to come to the place known to His betrayer. He gives Himself up to the murderers in order to show that He goes to His suffering voluntarily, and frees the Jews from the labor of seeking Him. …
Western Saints
Augustine of Hippo
The discourse, which our Lord had with His disciples after supper, and the prayer which followed, being now ended, the Evangelist begins the account of His Passion. When Jesus had spoken these words, He came forth with His disciples over the brook Cedron, where was a garden, into which He entered, and His disciples. But this did not take place immediately after the prayer was ended; there was an interval containing some things, which John omits, but which are mentioned by the other Evangelists. (de Con. Ev. iii. c. …
Thomas Aquinas
2271 Before his passion, as we saw above, our Lord prepared his disciples in many ways: teaching them by his example, comforting them with his words, and aiding them by his prayers. Now the Evangelist begins the history of the passion: first, he sets forth the mystery of the passion; secondly, the glory of the resurrection (20:1). Christ's passion was effected partly by the Jews, and partly by the Gentiles. Thus, he first describes what Christ suffered from the Jews; secondly, what he suffered from the Gentiles (19:1). …
Bonaventure
Second, it treats of those things which accompany the passion, in a fourfold manner. "When he had said these things," etc. Above he treated of the things antecedent to the passion, namely from the end of the eleventh chapter; here he treats of those things in which the passion is consummated. And because in the passion he was apprehended and judged, slain and buried, therefore this part is divided into four parts. …
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