But this was all the better for Peter, who was thereby made more approved, and evinced his own manly courage. And it says, there was earnest prayer making. It was the prayer of (filial) affection: it was for a father they asked, a father mild. There was, it says, earnest prayer. Hear how they were affected to their teachers. No factions, no perturbation: but they betook them to prayer, to that alliance which is indeed invincible, to this they betook them for refuge. They did not say, What? I, poor insignificant creature that I am, to pray for him! for, as they acted of love, they did not give these things a thought. And observe, it was during the feast, that (their enemies) brought these trials upon them, that their worth might be the more approved. And when Herod, etc.
