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1 | Did Jesus suffer from depression? | Matt 26:37 | Hank | 148779 | ||
T'oma : Prayon is right. There is not a scintilla of evidence that would suggest that Jesus suffered from a mental or emotional dysfunction that medical science today calls depression or, more properly, clinical depression. One can be vexed in spirit, deeply sorrowful, profoundly distressed when he comes face to face with any extremely difficult and trying event in his life. It would be decidedly abnormal to react otherwise. This writer experienced inexpressibly intense sorrow and grief some years ago in the wake of the sudden death of his son, yet he has never had clinical depression. Jesus certainly was troubled at Gethsemane, but His sorrow had nothing to do with weakness, instability or clinical depression as modern medical science defines it. I believe that the Savior was troubled -- yes even depressed in a certain sense -- more by the reality of sinful man and by the sins for which He was about to shed His blood on the cross than by anything else. Let us ever bear in mind that our blessed Lord did what He did willingly. He prayed that the cup would pass from Him but nevertheless gave His life in perfect obedience to the Father's will. --Hank | ||||||
2 | Did Jesus suffer from depression? | Matt 26:37 | T'oma | 148968 | ||
Thank you for your expressing your painful experience with me, Hank, concerning the death of your son. After burying two of my brothers, my widowed mother stated, “Children were meant to bury their parents, not the other way around.” I agree. Jesus' mother would also agree. I discovered in Adam Clarke’s Commentary (under Matthew 26:38) comments that help me understand the choice of words the Gospel writers used to describe Jesus’ intense battle in the garden. “My soul is exceeding sorrowful, (or, is surrounded with exceeding sorrow,) even unto death.] This latter word explains the two former: My soul is so dissolved in sorrow, my spirit is filled with such agony and anguish, that, if speedy succour be not given to my body, death must be the speedy consequence. Now, the grand expiatory sacrifice begins to be offered: in this garden Jesus enters fully into the sacerdotal office; and now, on the altar of his immaculate divinity, begins to offer his own body-his own life-a lamb without spot, for the sin of the world. St. Luke observes, Luke xxii. 43, 44, that there appeared unto him an angel from heaven strengthening him; and that, being in an agony, his sweat was like great drops of blood falling to the ground. How exquisite must this anguish have been, when it forced the very blood through the coats of the veins, and enlarged the pores in such a preternatural manner as to cause them to empty it out in large successive drops! In my opinion, the principal part of the redemption price was paid in this unprecedented and indescribable agony. Bloody sweats are mentioned by many authors; but none was ever such as this-where a person in perfect health, (having never had any predisposing sickness to induce a debility of the system,) and in the full vigour of life, about thirty-three years of age, suddenly, through mental pressure, without any fear of death, sweat great drops of blood; and these continued, during his wrestling with God to fall to the ground. To say that all this was occasioned by the fear he had of the ignominious death which he was about to die confutes itself- for this would not only rob him of his divinity, for which purpose it is brought, but it deprives him of all excellency, and even of manhood itself. The prospect of death could not cause him to suffer thus, when he knew that in less than three days he was to be restored to life, and be brought into an eternity of blessedness. His agony and distress can receive no consistent explication but on this ground-He SUFFERED, the JUST for the UNJUST, that he might BRING us to GOD. O glorious truth! O infinitely meritorious suffering! And O! above all, the eternal love, that caused him to undergo such sufferings for the sake of SINNERS!” Indeed – such an eternal love! T’oma |
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