Hilary of Poitiers, on Matt 14:22

“And forthwith Jesus obliged his disciples to go up into the boat, and to go before him over the water, till he dismissed the people.”

“Or; That Peter alone out of all the number of those that were in the vessel has courage to answer, and to pray that the Lord would bid him come to Him upon the waters, figures the frowardness of his will in the Lord’s passion, when following after the Lord’s steps he endeavoured to attain to despise death. But his fearfulness shews his weakness in his after trial, when through fear of death, he was driven to the necessity of denial. His crying out here is the groaning of his repentance there.”

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