SEV Biblia, Chapter 22:43
Y le apareci un ngel del cielo confortndole.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Luke 22:43
Verse 43. There appeared an angel-from heaven] It was as necessary that the fullest evidence should be given, not only of our Lord's Divinity, but also of his humanity: his miracles sufficiently attested the former; his hunger, weariness, and agony in the garden, as well as his death and burial, were proofs of the latter. As man, he needs the assistance of an angel to support his body, worn down by fatigue and suffering. See at the end of chap. xxii. 44.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 43. And there appeared an angel unto him from heaven , etc.] Whether this was Michael the archangel, as some have conjectured, or Gabriel, or what particular angel, is not for us to know, nor is it of any importance: it is certain, it was a good angel: an angel of God, as the Ethiopic version reads; since he came from heaven, and was one of the angels of heaven, sent by God on this occasion; and it is clear also, that he was in a visible form, and was seen by Christ, since he is said to appear to him: strengthening him ; under his present distress, against the terrors of Satan, and the fears of death, by assuring him of the divine favour, as man, and of the fulfilment of the promises to him to stand by him, assist, strengthen, and carry him through what was before him; and by observing to him the glory and honour he should be crowned with, after his sufferings and death, find the complete salvation of his people, which would be obtained hereby, and which was the joy set before him; and which animated him, as man, to bear the cross, and despise the shame with a brave and heroic Spirit. Now, though God the Father could have strengthened the human nature of Christ, without making use of an angel; and Christ could have strengthened it himself, by his divine nature, to which it was united; but the human nature was to be brought into so low a condition, and to be left to itself, as to stand in need of the assistance of an angel: and this shows not only the ministration of angels to Christ, as man, but that he was at this present time made a little lower than the angels, who was the Creator and Lord of them; as he afterwards more apparently was, through the sufferings of death.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 39-46 - Every description which the evangelists give of the state of mind in which our Lord entered upon this conflict, proves the tremendous natur of the assault, and the perfect foreknowledge of its terrors possesse by the meek and lowly Jesus. Here are three things not in the othe evangelists. 1. When Christ was in his agony, there appeared to him a angel from heaven, strengthening him. It was a part of his humiliatio that he was thus strengthened by a ministering spirit. 2. Being in agony, he prayed more earnestly. Prayer, though never out of season, is in a special manner seasonable when we are in an agony. 3. In thi agony his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down. Thi showed the travail of his soul. We should pray also to be enabled to resist unto the shedding of our blood, striving against sin, if eve called to it. When next you dwell in imagination upon the delights of some favourite sin, think of its effects as you behold them here! Se its fearful effects in the garden of Gethsemane, and desire, by the help of God, deeply to hate and to forsake that enemy, to ranso sinners from whom the Redeemer prayed, agonized, and bled.
Greek Textus Receptus
ωφθη 3700 5681 V-API-3S δε 1161 CONJ αυτω 846 P-DSM αγγελος 32 N-NSM απ 575 PREP ουρανου 3772 N-GSM ενισχυων 1765 5723 V-PAP-NSM αυτον 846 P-ASM
Vincent's NT Word Studies
43. There appeared (wfqh). The word most commonly used in the New Testament of seeing visions. See Matt. xvii. 3; Mark ix. 4; Luke i. 11; xxii. 43; Acts ii. 17; vii. 35. The kindred noun ojptasia, wherever it occurs in the New Testament, means a vision. See Luke i. 22; xxiv. 23, etc.Strengthening (eniscuwn). Only here and Acts ix. 19. See on was not able, ch. xiv. 30; and cannot, ch. xvi. 3. Commonly intransitive; to prevail in or among. Used transitively only by Hippocrates and Luke.
Robertson's NT Word Studies
22:43 {An angel} (aggelos). The angels visited Jesus at the close of the three temptations at the beginning of his ministry (#Mt 4:11). Here the angel comes during the conflict.
