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Mat_26:42 ff. Πάλιν ἐκ δευτέρου ] a well-known pleonasm. Joh_21:15; Act_10:15. Comp. δεύτερον πάλιν , Plat. Polit. p. 260 D, αὖθις πάλιν (p. 282 C), and such like. We sometimes find even a threefold form: αὖθις αὖ πάλιν , Soph. Phil. 940, O. C. 1421.
εἰ ] not quandoquidem (Grotius), but: if. The actual feelings of Jesus are expressed in all their reality in the form of acquiescence in that condition of impossibility ( οὐ δύναται ) as regards the divine purpose which prevents the thing from being otherwise.
τοῦτο ] without τὸ ποτήριον (see the critical remarks): this, which I am called upon to drink.
ἐὰν μὴ αὐτὸ πίω ] without my having drunk it; if it cannot pass from me unless it is drunk.
γενηθήτω τὸ θέλημά σου ] this is the ὑπακοὴ μεχρὶ θανάτου σταυροῦ , Php_2:8; Rom_5:19. Observe in this second prayer the climax of resignation and submission; His own will, as mentioned in Mat_26:39, is completely silenced. Mark’s account is here less precise.
Mat_26:43. ἦσαν γὰρ , κ . τ . λ .] for their eyes (see on Mat_8:3) were heavy (weighed down with drowsiness). Comp. Eur. Alc. 385.
Mat_26:44. ἐκ τρίτου ] belongs to προσηύξ . Comp. 2Co_12:8.
τ . αὐτ . λόγ .] as is given at Mat_26:42.