the garden of Gethsemane, shortly before the soldiers of the Temple fail to capture him, Jesus utters the following words: "Father, if possible, let this cup pass from me" ( Mt 26.39). What does this mean?
R / "The image of the section discusses almost always in the Bible, the idea of God's wrath against sin. The 'Cup Vertigo' as called Isaiah (Isaiah 51.22), which is said to be drunk, the dregs' by sinners (Ps 75.9). The Apocalypse also speaks of the 'wine of the wrath of God, which is prepared fresh in the cup of his wrath "(Rev 4:10). At the beginning of the letter to the Romans, St. Paul established a fact that has value universal principle: 'The wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness "(Romans 1:18). Where there is sin, there can only apply the judgments of God against it, otherwise God would accept the compromise with sin, and the distinction between good and evil would disappear. However, Jesus in Gethsemane is ungodliness, wickedness of the whole world. He is the man 'made sin'. Christ-is written-is dead 'to the sinners in their place, not only in their favor. He agreed to meet for all, so it is the 'responsible' for all, guilty before God! It is against him that 'proves' the wrath of God and that is 'drink the cup'. [...] The sins, in other words, were on him, he had endorsed, for he was free to 'do his own'. [...] Jesus has done all his human pride, any injustice, any violence, any lies, all the hatred that is something so terrible. "Raniero Cantalamessa, Life in the Lordship of Christ , p. 73.
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