cy) ministereth sufficient strength to endure them, with a constant and willing mind.
He took, for his companions in his journey, three of his disciples, whom he loved above the rest: St. Peter, St. James, and St. John. Who, as they were eye-witnesses of his transfiguration, so likewise, they should be present in his agony, to behold him, for the love of man, now transformed into a far more different shape than he was when he manifested himself unto them in a glorious and glittering form.
That, also, he might open unto them his inward grief to be much greater than appeared outwardly. He saith unto them: "Tristis est anima mea usque ad mortem. Sustinete hic, et vigilate mecum:" "My soul is sorrowful even unto death. Stay you here and watch with me."[1] O words full of compassion! Then departing from his disciples a stone's cast, with great submission and reverence, he prayed his Father: " Pater mi, si possible est, transeat a me calix istp, verumtamen non sicut ego volo, sed sicut tu." "My Father, if it be possible, let this chalice pass from me. Nevertheless, not as I will, but as thou wilt." Which prayer, when he had repeated thrice, he fell into such an agony that he sweat drops of blood, trickling down upon the earth, from his precious body.
Consider, that partly the foreseeing of the
- ↑ Matt xxvi.
