The Third Question and the Triple Confession of Love
Regarding the third of those questions, he is simultaneously making an exhortation to him that reminds him; at the same time, he is reminding him of the third denial that had occurred, and opposing the triple confession of love against the triple denial and demanding the readiness of service, so that he might confess Christ in works,
whom he denied by words while taking care of his own salvation (John 21:18-19).
[John 21:18-19] He says that he will make an even greater proof of love through martyrdom, and prepares him to have this readiness, so that, opposing need with courage, he might remove the martyrdom unto death concerning the Lord, which previously had become a denial through fear of death.
And ‘to be girded,’ he says, means to be bound.
And the following path will be especially through the cross, because he suffers the same things as the Savior and turns to him and the...
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τρίτην περὶ τῶν αὐτῶν ἐρώτησιν ἅμα μὲν ἀείμνηστον αὐτῷ ποιῶν τὸ παράγγελμα; ἅμα δὲ καὶ τῆς τρίτης γενομένης ἀρνήσεως ἀναμιμνῄσκων καὶ τὴν τριπλῆν ὁμολογίαν τῆς ἀγάπης ἀντὶ τῆς τριπλῆς ἀρνήσεως ἀντεισάγων καὶ τὴν προθυμίαν τῆς ὑπηρεσίας ἀπαιτῶν, ἵν' ἐν ἔργοις ὁμολογήσειε Χριστόν, ὃν λόγοις ἠρνήσατο ® σωτηρίας ἀπ' ἀνθρώπων ἐπιμελούμενος. 156 Jο 21, 18 19 Τὴν ἔτι μείζω τῆς ἀγάπης ἀπόδειξιν τὴν διὰ τοῦ μαρτυρίου φησὶν αὐτὸν ποιήσεσθαι καὶ παρασκευάζει πρὸς τοῦτο ἔχειν ἑτοίμως, ἵνα ἀντὶ δέους θάρσος ἀντεισαγαγὼν καὶ τὴν μέχρι θανάτου μαρτυρίαν περὶ τοῦ κυρίου τὴν πρότερον διὰ θανάτου φόβον ἄρνησιν γενομένην ἀπαλείψειεν. ζώννυσθαι δὲ τὸ δεσμεῖσθαί φησιν. ἡ δὲ ἀκολούθησις μάλιστα μὲν διὰ τοῦ σταυροῦ ἔσται, ὅτι ταὐτὸν τῷ σωτῆρι πάσχει καὶ μετανίσταται αὐτῷ καὶ τὴν