Matthew 16:17
Douay-Rheims
And Jesus answering, said to him: Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-Jona: because flesh and blood hath not revealed it to thee, but my Father who is in heaven.
Hilary of Poitiers
Otherwise; He is blessed, because to have looked and to have seen beyond human sight is matter of praise, not beholding that which is of flesh and blood, but seeing the Son of God by the revelation of the heavenly Father; and he was held worthy to be the first to acknowledge the divinity which was in Christ.
Source details
A.D. 367 · as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 16:13-19
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.