Torches

"On the night of his betrayal, when our Lord was in the garden of" "Gethsemane, Judas, "having received a band of men and officers" "from the chief priests and Pharisees, cometh thither with" "lanterns and torches and weapons" (John 18:1-3). Although it was" "the time of full moon, yet in the valley of the Kidron "there" "fell great, deep shadows from the declivity of the mountain and" "projecting rocks; there were there caverns and grottos, into" "which a fugitive might retreat; finally, there were probably a" "garden-house and tower, into whose gloom it might be necessary" "for a searcher to throw light around." Lange's Commentary." "(Nahum 2:3, "torches," Revised Version, "steel," probably should" "be "scythes" for war-chariots.)"