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What the Fathers say

Luke 22:60

Western Saints

Augustine of Hippo

The cock-crow we understand to have been after the third denial of Peter, as Mark has expressed it.

Catena Aurea by Aquinas ↗

Ambrose of Milan

That is, I know not your blasphemies. But we make excuse for him. He did not excuse himself. For an involved answer is not sufficient for our confessing Jesus, but an open confession is required. And therefore Peter is not represented to have answered this deliberately, for he afterwards recollected himself, and wept.

Catena Aurea by Aquinas ↗

Bede

And Peter said: Man, I do not know what you are saying. And immediately, while he was still speaking, the rooster crowed. The sacred Scripture often signifies the merit of causes through the state of times. Hence Peter, who denied in the middle of the night, repented at the crowing of the rooster. …

On the Gospel of Luke ↗