Jerome, on Matt 26:69

“But Peter sat without in the court: and there came to him a servant maid, saying: Thou also wast with Jesus the Galilean.”

“And again he denied with an oath, I do not know the man. I know that some out of a feeling of piety towards the Apostle Peter have interpreted this place to signify that Peter denied the Man and not the God, as though he meant, ‘I do not know the Man, because I know the God.’x But the intelligent reader will see that this is trifling, for if he denied not, the Lord spoke falsely when He said, Thou shalt deny me thrice.”

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