“He has power to ask, if He will, legions of angels from the Father for His help. He exclaims that God had forsaken Him.”
Tertullian, 3th c. — Against Praxeas
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53Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels?
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51And, behold, one of them which were with Jesus stretched out his hand, and drew his sword, and struck a servant of the high priest’s, and smote off his ear.
52Then said Jesus unto him, Put up again thy sword into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.
— Matthew 26:53 —
54But how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be?
55In that same hour said Jesus to the multitudes, Are ye come out as against a thief with swords and staves for to take me? I sat daily with you teaching in the temple, and ye laid no hold on me.