JC Ryle comments on Matthew 26v36-46'It is a passage which undoubtedly contains deep and mysterious things. We ought to read it with reverence and wonder, for there is much in it which we cannot fully comprehend.' (p259, Matthew, JC Ryle)
...'The extent to which Satan was allowed to tempt our Lord at this time; the degree of suffering, both mental and bodily, which an entirely sinless person like our Lord would endure in bearing the sin of all mankind; the manner in which the human and divine wills both operated in our Lord's experience, since he was at all times as really man as God - all these are points which I prefer to leave alone. It is easy on such questions to 'darken counsel with words without knowledge.' (p260-261, Matthew, JC Ryle)
mmm.... so that gives me pause for thought ....
'The Socinian utterly denies the doctrine of atonement and says that our Lord was only a man, and not God. Yet on his view Jesus showed less firmness in suffering than many men have shown! Some modern theologians say that our Lord's death was not a propitiation and expiation for sin, but only a great example of self-sacrifice. On this view, the intense agony of body and mind here described is equally unaccountable. Both views appear to me alike dishonouring to our Lord Jesus Christ, and utterly unscriptural and unsatisfactory. I believe in the agony in the garden to be a knot that nothing can untie except the old doctrine of our sin being really imputed to Christ, and Christ being made sin and a curse for us.' (p260, Matthew, JC Ryle)
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