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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Jerome
Get up, let's go, behold the one who will betray me is approaching. While He was still speaking, behold Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great crowd with swords and clubs, sent by the chief priests and elders of the people. Let us not be found as if fearing and retreating, let us willingly go towards death, so that they may see the confidence and joy we will endure.
Thomas Aquinas
Then he sets forth the rousing. And first, he sets it forth; second, the necessity, at behold. Now in that he says rise, he shows his own readiness; hence in John 18:3 it is said that he went out to meet them. And why? Behold, he is at hand that will betray me. He was near, not because he saw with the bodily eye, but by his own spirit, namely by the eye of his divinity. But how did he say to them rise, since he had given them leave to sleep? …
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