Luke Chapter 22, Verse 43
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43: ωφθη δε αυτω αγγελος απ ουρανου ενισχυων αυτον
43: And there appeared an angel unto him from heaven,
strengthening him.
43: And there appeared to him an angel from heaven, strengthening
him. And being in an agony, he prayed the longer.
Strengthening him. His human nature, to sustain the great burden
that was upon his soul. Some have supposed from this that he was not
divine as well as human; for if he was God, how could an angel give
any strength or comfort? and why did not the divine nature alone
sustain the human? But the fact that he was divine does not affect
the case at all. It might be asked with the same propriety, If he was,
as all admit, the friend of God, and beloved of God, and holy, why,
if he was a mere man, did not God sustain him alone, without an angel's
intervening ? But the objection in neither case would have any force. The
man, Christ Jesus, was suffering. His human nature was in agony, and
it is the manner of God to sustain the afflicted by the intervention of
others; nor was there any more unfitness in sustaining the human nature
of his Son in this manner than any other sufferer.
