{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/009/0090418.htm","path":"chr/ecf/009/0090418.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/009/0090418.htm","text":"21. The Rebuke of Peter and the Answer of Jesus.\n\u201cAnd Peter took Him and began to rebuke Him, saying, God be propitious to Thee. Lord, this shall never be unto thee.\u201d 5694 To whom He said, \u201cGet thee behind Me, Satan; thou art a stumbling-block unto Me; for thou mindest not the things of God but the things of men.\u201d 5695 Since Jesus had begun to show unto His disciples that He must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things, Peter up to this point learned the beginnings of those things which were shown. 5696 But since he thought that the sufferings were unworthy of Christ the Son of the living God, and below the dignity of the Father who had revealed to him so great things about Christ,\u2014for the things that concerned His coming suffering had not been revealed to him,\u2014on this account he took Him, and as one forgetful of the honour due to the Christ, and that the Son of the living God neither does nor says anything worthy of rebuke, he began to rebuke Him; and as to one who needed propitiation,\u2014for he did not yet know that \u201cGod had set Him forth to be a propitiation through faith in His blood,\u201d 5697 he said, \u201cGod be propitious to thee, O Lord.\u201d 5698 Approving his purpose, indeed, but rebuking his ignorance, because of the purpose being right, He says to him, \u201cGet thee behind Me,\u201d 5699 as to one who, by reason of the things of which he was ignorant and spake not rightly, had abandoned the following of Jesus; but because of his ignorance, as to one who had something antagonistic to the things of God, He said, \u201cSatan,\u201d which in the Hebrew means \u201cadversary.\u201d But, if Peter had not spoken from ignorance, nor rebuked the Son of the living God, saying unto Him, \u201cGod be propitious to thee, Lord, this shall never be unto Thee,\u201d Christ would not have said to him, \u201cGet thee behind Me,\u201d as to one who had given up being behind Him and following Him; nor would He have said as to one who had spoken things adverse to what He had said, \u201cSatan.\u201d But now Satan prevailed over him who had followed Jesus and was going behind Him, to turn aside from following Him and from being behind the Son of God, and to make him, by reason of the words which he spoke in ignorance, worthy p. 463 of being called \u201cSatan\u201d and a stumbling-block to the Son of God, and \u201cas not minding the things of God but the things of men.\u201d But that Peter was formerly behind the Son of God, before he committed this sin, is manifest from the words, \u201cCome ye behind Me, and I will make you fishers of men.\u201d 5700\nThese three sentences are supplied from the old Latin version, as at this point there is a hiatus in the mss.\n462:5697 462:5698 462:5699 463:5700","title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol IX: Origen's Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew.: Chapter XXI","type":"page"}