24. Pray ye to the Lord for me--Peter had urged him to pray for
himself: he asks those wonder-working men to do it for him; having no
confidence in the prayer of faith, but thinking that those men possessed
some peculiar interest with heaven.
that none of these things dome upon me--not that the thought of his
wicked heart might be forgiven him, but only that the evils threatened
might be averted from him. While this throws great light on Peter's view
of his melancholy case, it shows that Christianity, as something divine,
still retained its hold of him. (Tradition represents him as turning out
a great heresiarch, mingling Oriental or Grecian philosophy with some
elements of Christianity.)
JFB.
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