Torches

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From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Torches
     On the night of his betrayal, when our Lord was in the garden of
     Gethsemane, Judas, "having received a band of men and officers
     from the chief priests and Pharisees, cometh thither with
     lanterns and torches and weapons" (John 18:1-3). Although it was
     the time of full moon, yet in the valley of the Kidron "there


     fell great, deep shadows from the declivity of the mountain and
     projecting rocks; there were there caverns and grottos, into
     which a fugitive might retreat; finally, there were probably a
     garden-house and tower, into whose gloom it might be necessary
     for a searcher to throw light around." Lange's Commentary.
     (Nahum 2:3, "torches," Revised Version, "steel," probably should
     be "scythes" for war-chariots.)