[Officium]
In Octava Ss. Apostolorum Petri et Pauli

[Lectio7]
Evangélium szent Máté Apostol kőnyvéből
!Matt 14:22-23
Azon időben Jézus szólt a tanítványoknak, szálljanak bárkába, és evezzenek át a túlsó partra, addig ő hazaküldi a népet. És így tovább.
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Homily by St Jerome, Priest at Bethlehem.
!Bk. ii. Comm. on Matth. xiv.
The Lord commanded His disciples to cross over to the other side, and constrained them to get into a ship. By these expressions we perceive that they were unwilling to leave the Lord, the love of their Teacher making them desire not to lose a moment of His company. And when He had sent the multitudes away, He went up into a mountain apart to pray. Perchance, if Peter, and James, and John, who had seen Him in the glory of the Transfiguration, had been with Him, they would have gone up into the mountain with Him, but the common herd could not follow Him, save when He taught them on the sea shore, or fed them in the wilderness.