Matthew Poole and continuators on Matthew 26:43
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Matthew26:43
43 And he came, and found them asleep again, for their eyes were heavy.
Mark saith, Ch. 14.39. And again he went away and Prayed, saying the same Words. And when he returned he found them asleep again (for their Eyes were heavy) neither wist they what to Answer him, saying the same Words. How our Translation came to translate this so I cannot tell, in the Greek it is [non-Latin text not transcribed], which must be Translated, The same Word, or the same Speech, not Words (if that were the Evangelists Sense.) But that it is not, for as it is plain, our Saviour used more than one Word. So it is as plain, it was not the same Speech, or Form of Words, for we have met with four different Forms already, Our Lord prayed but thrice, so as he could not say the same Speech. But [non-Latin text not transcribed] here signifies Matter.—Speaking the same Matter, or to the same Sense, and thus we translate it, Mar. 1.45. Mar. 2.2. and in a multitude of other Texts, in Correspondence with the Hebrew [non-Latin text not transcribed]. He comes to them a second time, and findeth them asleep. So quickly did they find the Truth of what he had but now taught them. That the Spirit is willing, but the Flesh is Weak, for there is no doubt but they did what they could to keep themselves awake.
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