Matthew 26:53
Douay-Rheims
Thinkest thou that I cannot ask my Father, and he will give me presently more than twelve legions of angels?
Jerome
That is to say, I need not the aid of the Apostles, though all the twelve should fight for me, seeing I could have twelve legions of the Angelic army. The complement of a legion among the ancients was six thousand men; twelve legions then are seventy-two thousand Angels, being as many as the divisions of the human race and languaget.
Source details
A.D. 420 · as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 26:51-54
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.