Medieval A.D. 804
“Over the brook Cedron, i. e. of cedars. It is the genitive in the Greek. He goes over the brook, i. e. drinks of the brook of His Passion. Where there was a garden, that the sin which was committed in a garden, He might blot out in a garden. Paradise signifies garden of delights.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of John, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 18:1-2
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1845) ↗