John Trapp on Luke 22:44

Verse 44. And being in an agony] [non-Latin text not transcribed] saith a Greek Father. Alphonsus is honoured in Histories for this, that he abased himself so far, as to help one of his subjects out of a ditch. Shall not Christ much more be honoured that helped all his out of the ditch of damnation? Great drops of bloud] Clotty bloud issuing through flesh and skin in great abundance. Oecolampadius tels of a certain poor man, [non-Latin text not transcribed], who being kept hanging in the trusse of the cord (which is a certain hanging by the hands behind, having a weighty stone fastened at their feet) the space of six hours, the sweat that dropt from hisAct. and Mon. fol. 805. body for very pain and anguish, was almost bloud. But here was no (almost) in our Saviours bloudy sweat; whiles, without any externall violence meerly by the force of his own saddest thoughts working upon him, sanguinem congelatum quasi extruserit. So great was Scanderbegs ardor in battell, that the bloud burst out of hisBucholcer. lips. But from our Champions not lips only, but whole body, burst out a bloudy sweat. Not his eyes only were fountains of tears, or his head waters, as Jeremy wished Chap. 9. 1. but his whole body was turned, as it were, into rivers of bloud: A sweet comfort to such as are cast down for that, that their sorrow for sin is not so deep and soaking, as they could desire.