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Mat 26:45. Καθεύδετε τὸ λοιπὸν, sleep on now) An imperative, leaving the disciples, as it were to themselves, wholly given up as they were to sleep, and thus exciting them so much the more urgently by tenderness joined with severity. It is not an instance of irony, but metonymy, q.d. “You do not listen to Me when attempting to rouse you, others soon will come and rouse yon. In the meanwhile sleep, if you have leisure for so doing.” In St Luke (Luk 22:46) we find τί καθεύδετε “why sleep ye?” with an interrogation, which some have introduced into St Matthew and St Mark.-ἀναπαύεσθε, take your rest), as Sleep is opposed to Watching, so Rest to the labour of prayer.-ἠ ὥρα, the hour) often foretold. In Mat 26:18 He had said less definitely “My time.”