| Luke 22:44
| And his sweat became as drops of blood trickling down upon the ground.
| And his sweat became as drops of blood, etc. This has sometimes happened, though in a lesser degree, to persons under extraordinary grief, if we believe Aristotle, lib. 3:Animanium, ch. XIX. p. 891, and lib. de part. Animalium, ch. V. p. 1156. Ed. Aureliae Allobr. an 1607. --- This passage of Christ's bloody sweat, and of the apparition of the angel, was heretofore wanting in divers both Greek and Latin copies; as appears by St. Jerome, (lib. 2:cont. Pelagianos. tom. iv, part 2, p. 521) and by St. Hilary, lib. X. de Trin. p. 1062. Nov. Ed. It seems to have been left out by ignorant transcribers, who thought it not consistent with the dignity of Christ. But we find it in the above-said place, in St. Jerome, in St. Chrysostom (hom. lxxxiv. in Matt.), in St. Augustine (in Psalm cxl. tom. iv, p. 1564, and in Psalm xciii, p. 1013.) in St. Epiphanius in Ancorato, p. 36, Ed. Petav. (Witham)
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