Online Resource Library
Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.com | DownloadHeinrich Meyer Commentary - Matthew 26:72 - 26:72
(Show All Books | Show All Chapters)
This Chapter Verse Commentaries:
Mat_26:72. Observe the climax in the terms of the threefold denial.
μεθʼ ὅρκου ] is peculiar to Matthew, and is here used in the sense of an oath.
τὸν ἄμθρωπον ] the man (in question). Alas, such is the language, cold and distant, which Peter uses with reference to his Master! What a contrast to Mat_16:16! “Ecce, columna firmissima ad unius aurae impulsum tota contremuit,” Augustine.