Patristic A.D. 397
“Rightly he followed afar off, soon about to deny, for he could never have denied if he had clung close to Christ. But herein must he be revered, that he forsook not our Lord, even though he was afraid. Fear is the effect of nature, solicitude of tender affection.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Luke, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 22:54-62
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1843) ↗