Mark 3:16 Douay-Rheims

And to Simon he gave the name Peter:

Bede the Venerable

c. A.D. 672–735 Patristic

(ubi sup.) And the reason that the Lord willed that he should at first be called otherwise, was that from the change itself of the name, a mystery might be conveyed to us. Peter then in Latin or in Greek means the same thing as Cephas in Hebrew, and in each language the name is drawn from a stone. Nor can it be doubted that is the rock of which Paul spoke, And this rock was Christ. (1 Cor. 10:4) For as Christ was the true light, and allowed also that the Apostles should be called the light of the world, (Matt. 5:14.) so also to Simon, who believed on the rock Christ, He gave the name of Rock.

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A.D. 735 · as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Mark 3:13-19

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.

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