Mark 15:21

And they compelled one Simon a Cyrenian, who passed by, coming in from the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to bear his cross.
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George Leo Haydock

AD 1849
St. Jerome thinks Alexander and Rufus were disciples of Christ, and on this account the name of their father is here expressed (St. Jerome in Dionysius)

John Chrysostom

AD 407
When they went out of the Praetorium, Christ was carrying it: but as they proceeded Simon took it from him and bore it.

Tertullian of Carthage

AD 220
But by the above-named Abraxas; and to have come in a phantasm, and been destitute of the substance of flesh: that it was not He who suffered among the Jews, but that Simon

Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation - 2 Peter 1:20

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