“J. A. T.,” Swindon. Luke 22:35-38 teaches that during Christ’s presence with His disciples, they had lacked nothing; but now that He was going away from them, they might count upon privation, conflict, and persecution, inasmuch as the day of His power was not yet come. “Peter, ever forward,” says a recent writer, “taking the words of Christ literally, was permitted to lay bare his thoughts by exhibiting two swords. The Lord stops him by a word that showed him it was of no use to go further. They were not capable of it at that time” (Synopsis, Vol. 3, p. 374).