*Father save me from this hour.* Some read this with a note of interrogation after it, as if the meaning were: Shall I say to the Father to save Me from this hour? But we may understand the words as a conditional prayer proceeding from Christ’s human will; conditional, that is, upon his Father’s will to save Him from the Passion which He was to undergo, just as in St. Luke xxii. 42: “Father, if Thou wilt, remove this chalice from Me; but not My will, but Thine be done.” That such, indeed, is the meaning here, is proved by what follows, where Jesus retracts this conditional prayer, saying that it was for the very purpose that He might suffer, that He came unto this hour. 28. Pater, clarifica nomen 28. Father, glorify thy name. tuum. Venit ergo vox de coelo: A voice therefore came from Et clarificavi, et iterum heaven: I have both glorified clarificabo. it, and will glorify it again. 28. In this verse, then, He prays absolutely to the Father to glorify His name by the sufferings and death of the Son. And a voice came from the air, produced there by God or an angel, saying: *I have both glorified (it), and will glorify (it) again*. The sense of these words of the Father is disputed. The Latin fathers understand the sense to be; I have glorified Thee from all eternity, and will glorify Thee again as God‐man after Thy ascension. In favour of this view is the prayer of Christ: “And now glorify Thou Me, O Father, with Thyself, with the glory which I had before the world was, with Thee” (John xvii. 5). The Greek fathers, on the other hand, all take the sense to be: I have already glorified Thee by many miracles, and will again glorify Thee in the miracles to be wrought at Thy death, resurrection, and ascension, and afterwards by Thy followers in Thy name. It will be noted that the fathers generally understand the words of God the Father in reference to the glorification of Christ, whereas Christ’s prayer regarded the glorification of the Father’s name. We feel convinced, however, that the _direct_ object of glorification in both instances is the Father’s name. For when Christ prays: “Glorify Thy name,” and the Father answers: “I have glorified, and will again glorify,” obviously the answer must refer to the glorification of the Father’s name, for which Christ had prayed. Since, however, the glorification of the Father was to be brought about by the glorification of the Son; hence, this too is indirectly referred to, and our interpretation agrees substantially with that of the fathers. 29. Turba ergo quae stabat et 29. The multitude therefore audierat, dicebat tonitruum that stood and heard, said esse factum. Alii dicebant: that it thundered. Others Angelus ei locutus est. said, An Angel spoke to him. 30. Respondit Iesus, et dixit: 30. Jesus answered and said: Non propter me haec vox venit, This voice came not because of sed propter vos. me, but for your sakes.