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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
Theophylact of Ohrid
Peter said unto Him, Even if I must die with Thee, yet will I not deny Thee. Likewise also said all the disciples. Then cometh Jesus with them unto a place called Gethsemane, and saith unto the disciples, Sit ye here, while I go away and pray yonder. Wanting to show that he had genuine love, Peter contradicted the Saviour. He had earlier been freed of the fear that he himself might be the betrayer, and now Peter, with great love but also out of a desire for honor, began to rise up against the others and even to oppose Christ. …
Western Saints
Thomas Aquinas
There follows the excuse of Peter: Peter saith to him etc. Peter excuses himself: yea, though I should die with thee, I will not deny thee. And yet he was afraid, because at the voice of a maid he denied. Jerome says that he did not know what he was saying, because Christ alone was to die, so that he alone would be the redeemer; Isa. 63:3: I have trodden the winepress alone. Then the affirmation of the others is set forth, namely: in like manner also all the disciples said. …
Rabanus Maurus
Peter understood the Lord to have foretold that he should deny Him under terror of death, and therefore he declares that though death were imminent, nothing could shake him from his faith; and the other Apostles in like manner in the warmth of their zeal, valued not the infliction of death, but human presumption is vain without Divine aid.
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