38. “Then He saith to them,” viz., the three Apostles, whom He wished to be witnesses of His agony in the garden. “My soul is sorrowful.” The Greek word, “περὶλυπος,” means, sorely grieved, excessively afflicted. Not My body, but “My soul,” is, as it were, rent in two by the excess and multitude of the sorrows that overwhelm Me, “intraverunt aquæ usque ad animam meam.” (Psa. 68) “Even unto death,” intensifies the above. As if He said: I experience such sorrow, as would be capable of producing death;