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2. Great drops of blood, [Greek or Hebrew]. There is sudor diaphoreticus, a thin faint sweat, and sudor grumosus, a thick, concrete, and clotted sweat; in this bloody sweat of Christ, it came not from him in small dews, but in great drops; they were drops, and great drops of Blood, crazy and thick drops; and hence it is concluded as preternatural; for though much may be said for sweating blood in a course of nature; Aristotle ¹affirms it, and Augustine grants that he knew a man that could sweat blood even when he pleased; in faint bodies a subtle thin blood, like sweat, may pass through the pores of the Skin; but that through the same pores, crass, thick, and great drops of blood should issue out, it was not, it could not be without a Miracle: Some call them grumes, others globes of blood; certainly the drops are great, so great, as if they had started through his skin to outrun the streams and rivers of his Cross.

2. Great drops of blood, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉. There is sudor diaphoreticus, a thin faint sweat, and sudor grumosus, a thick, concrete, and clotted sweat; in this bloody sweat of Christ, it came not from him in small dews, but in great drops; they were drops, and great drops of Blood, crassie and thick drops; and hence it is concluded as preternatural; for though much may be said for sweating blood in a course of nature; Aristotle ¹affirms it, and Augustine grants that he knew a man that could sweat blood even when he pleased; in faint bodies a subtile thin blood, like sweat, may pass through the pores of the Skin; but that through the same pores, crass, thick, and great drops of blood should issue out, it was not, it could not be without a Miracle: Some call them grumes, others globes of blood; certainly the drops are great, so great, as if they had started through his skin to outrun the streams and rivers of his Cross.

1. 1Arist. l. 3. de hist. anim. c. 29. Aug. l. 14. de Civ. Dei, c. 24.