Rise, let us be going: behold, he is at hand that doth betray me.
Ver. 46. Rise, let us be going] To meet that death which till he had prayed he greatly feared. So it was with Esther, Ezra 4:16, and with David, Psalms 116:3,4. See the power of faithful prayer to disarm death, and to alter the countenance of greatest danger. Quoties me oratio, quem paene desperantem susceperat, reddidit exultantem, &c.? How oft hath prayer recruited me? (Bern. Serm. 33 in Cant.)
Behold, he is at hand] Behold, for the miracle of the matter, yet now no miracle.
" Tuta frequensque via est per amici fallere nomen:
Tuta frequensque licet sit, via crimen habet. "