Wednesday, October 25, 2023

Jacob of Serugh on Peter being the “Rock” and Peter Denying Jesus being a Commandment from Jesus

  

35 Then Grace, through the mouth of the apostolate
called out, saying, ‘Kephas, don’t be afraid,
for you are Kephas, and upon you His church is being built.
It was not your fault that you denied: His word settled upon you
and you denied, as He had bidden. (Jacob of Serugh, “aḥay ba-ktobe,” in The Stanzaic Poems of Jacob of Serugh: A Collection of His Madroshe and Sughyotho [trans. Sebastian P. Brock; Texts from Christian Late Antiquity 72; Piscataway, N.J. Gorgias Press, 2022], 152)