And he said unto them,
Why are you fearful,
O you of little faith?
Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm.
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Cyril of Alexandria
AD 444
The exclamation “save us” is commendable, since it shows faith. But to say “we are perishing” brings a charge of littleness of faith against those who were in deep distress. They indeed put their hope in Christ who was sailing with them. They were not totally faithless but were at that point “of little faith,” since in their danger they did not take courage from the fact of Christ’s being with them.
